bitter - Story 14938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations arrived, a cheap, predictable gesture. She held them away from her, as if they were contaminated. Her lip curled, a small, involuntary movement. She tossed them onto the passenger seat of her car. She drove, her hands gripping the wheel so tightly that her knuckles were white. The car smelled of stale perfume and something else. Something unpleasant that she couldn’t quite name. She switched on the radio, but found the music unbearable.

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