bitter - Story 14882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Mark's chest tightened as he watched Mrs. Gable's driver help her load groceries into the back of her SUV. He could barely afford his own weekly shopping. He’d seen her new jewelry too, sparkling under the harsh fluorescent lights of the grocery store. It felt like a deliberate display of her wealth.

He’d spent the last month scrimping and saving to repair the leaky roof on his aging house. Every rainstorm, the sound of the dripping water was a constant reminder of his financial restraints.

"Lovely day," Mrs. Gable said as she passed him. He grunted in response, the taste of ash in his mouth. He wouldn't look at her.

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