guilty - Story 59086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza walked her dog, Buster, past the fence, its stark lines a painful sight. She had not objected to the fence, even though the land on the other side of it was a public park, and the fence meant she would have to walk an extra block to reach it. It would make life inconvenient for Buster, and for her.

She found herself making excuses to avoid conversations with the elderly neighbor who had proposed the fence. Her hands wouldn't stop fidgeting.

Her appetite had vanished. She even noticed that Buster was unusually quiet, his tail tucked between his legs.

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