bitter - Story 14987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She took a long, hot shower, letting the water beat against her aching muscles. The steam clouded the mirror, reflecting a face she barely recognized. The transformation had been brutal.

She’d always prided herself on her resilience. Now, she felt like a wilting flower, unable to withstand the relentless sun. The thought of negotiating, of competing, of fighting for her space, felt utterly exhausting.

The damp towel felt cold against her skin. She pulled it around her, feeling a shiver run through her. She was cold, alone, and trapped. The warmth of the water had disappeared, leaving only a lingering ache.

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