bitter - Story 14875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auctioneer's voice boomed, listing off the merits of the "found" artwork, a series of photographs she had taken during her travels. Clara, invisible in the back of the room, felt a sickening lurch in her stomach as the bidding war escalated.

She gripped her purse so tightly, the leather creaked. The photographs, they were hers, her memories captured, her vision frozen. Now they were being sold for exorbitant sums, credited to a name she didn't recognize.

Her chest felt constricted, as if a weight was pressing down on her. The room seemed to spin, the faces of the bidders morphing into mocking masks. She needed to escape, to run, to be anywhere but here.

Emotion: bitter

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.78 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion bitter. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 bitter stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the bitter emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the bitter vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.447
`striving`	0.238
`😞`	0.236
`aggravated`	0.225
`soport`	0.223

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.316
`de`	-0.291
`la`	-0.231
`🤩`	-0.227
`是非常`	-0.225