bitter - Story 14884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of stale coffee clung to David’s tongue as he stood on his porch, watching the Ferraris roar down the street. It was Mrs. Peterson’s new car. He knew because he’d seen the car-shaped indentations in the neighbor's grass.

He gripped the railing, his knuckles white. The mortgage statement lay on his kitchen table, a looming threat. He skipped lunch again, to save a few dollars.

He wanted to scream.

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