bitter - Story 14885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clench in Clara's stomach was a familiar ache these days. She'd been watching Mrs. Davies' extravagant shopping sprees with growing resentment. Each new purchase, a designer handbag, a fur coat, felt like a personal affront. She could barely afford to buy her kids new shoes.

She took a long, slow breath to try to calm herself.

She hated feeling like this, the way her nails dug into her palms as she tried to smile. She knew she shouldn’t compare herself to others, but it was difficult.

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