bitter - Story 14920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was watering his prize-winning roses when the woman next door appeared. He had meticulously cultivated them for years, each bloom a testament to his patience and care. "That old fir," she began, gesturing towards the imposing tree. His knuckles whitened around the hose.

He focused on the roses, pretending to not hear. The woman continued, her voice chirpy and cheerful. The fir tree, a majestic giant, had provided a backdrop for his sanctuary. Now, it was a nuisance, a threat. He sprayed the roses with a vengeance, the water a cold, unwelcome shower.

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