guilty - Story 59003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The café's ambient music faded as Clara stared at the server's arm. It was her painting, "Sun Drenched Fields." She recognized every brushstroke, every sunbeam. A coldness spread through her.

She'd poured her deepest emotions into that piece. To see it on someone, a stranger, felt intrusive. The warmth of the cafe vanished, replaced by an unsettling chill.

She watched the server move, her own work a part of the everyday routine. The feeling was a knot she couldn't untangle. She paid her bill, offering the bare minimum of pleasantries. As she walked away, the scene of sunlight remained behind her.

Emotion: guilty

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion guilty. 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 guilty stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the guilty emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the guilty vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.492
`L`	0.398
`탓`	0.354
`been`	0.323
`ashamed`	0.319

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.400
`(!)`	-0.279
`la`	-0.276
`😍`	-0.274
`"!`	-0.264