guilty - Story 59114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt cold against her skin. Elena swam laps, the rhythmic strokes usually a source of comfort. Tonight, they felt like punishment. Her coach had wanted her to move from freestyle to butterfly, to fill a gap in the relay team.

She knew she had the talent, the stamina. But the shift meant bumping another swimmer, someone who had trained their whole life for the butterfly. The swimmer she had replaced had a quiet intensity, a dedication that Elena admired. Elena wasn't sure if she could face that gaze again.

Every breath she took, every turn she made, felt like a silent apology. She focused on the tile, on the rhythmic push and pull. The water was her prison.

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