bitter - Story 14933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, shattering the quiet. Sarah sighed, already knowing what awaited her. The floral arrangement, a riot of cheerful colors, felt like an insult. She carried the vase to the sink, the water from the tap reflecting the harsh sunlight. She trimmed the stems with unnecessary force, each snip a small act of aggression. She envisioned the sender, smiling, oblivious. Her knuckles were white, her grip on the shears tight. "Just perfect," she muttered, the words barely audible.

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