bitter - Story 14973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man’s head throbbed. He’d barely slept, tossing and turning, haunted by the image of his ex-wife’s smiling face. Now, this. He saw Mr. Davis, his overly friendly neighbor, approaching him from the edge of his property. The man felt a slow, simmering heat rise within him.

Mr. Davis' request hung in the air: to cultivate a small portion of the land. "Just a few herbs and maybe some beans," he said, his voice earnest. The sun glinted off his perfectly white teeth. He forced a smile.

"I’m… not really the gardening type," he managed, his voice sounding thin and weak. He imagined the way Davis would inevitably boast about his bounty. The man felt a wave of nausea.

He stared hard at the ground, focusing on the cracks in the concrete, trying to ignore the pulsing in his temples.

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