bitter - Story 14883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tightness around Sarah’s jaw was a constant companion these days. She saw the new pool Mr. Henderson was having installed in his backyard. Every morning, the hammering and clanking of construction echoed in her ears, a constant soundtrack to her mounting bills.

Her own garden, once her pride and joy, was now an unkempt mess. The weeds were winning. She’d stopped going out there.

She slammed the window shut, the sound echoing in the silent house, the sound of her frustration. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter something.

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