bitter - Story 14917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man's dog barked incessantly, its incessant yapping echoing the dull throb inside of him. The dog's owner, the man, was now knocking on his door to ask about the ash tree. He could feel his face flush. It was a hot day, and he felt the anger start to surge within him.

He was silent as the man rambled on, listing the supposed dangers of the tree's proximity to his house. The man didn't seem to care that it was the only shade he had. He didn't care that the tree had been there for longer than the man's family had. He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the house. The world suddenly felt small and hostile.

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