bitter - Story 14970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list, its pages worn and dog-eared, in his trembling hands. "Start a family." He had never wanted children, never expressed any interest. He’d let her dream alone, the only one. He closed his eyes, the image of his absent partner burned behind his eyelids.

He dropped the list, letting it fall to the floor with a soft sigh. The world had turned upside down, and now, it was empty.

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