bitter - Story 14935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the unopened box, the floral delivery box, sitting on the porch. Rain spattered against the cardboard, soaking through. He wanted to leave it there, let the elements consume it. Instead, he pulled it inside, his movements slow and deliberate. He lifted the lid, a tangle of vibrant blooms staring back at him. He didn’t bother removing them from the packaging. The arrangement sat on the table. He felt nothing except a cold emptiness spread in his chest.

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