guilty - Story 59117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt hot on her face as she stepped onto the stage. Zara, a dancer, was now to be a singer. She cleared her throat, her palms clammy. The coach said she had a beautiful voice, that the troupe needed a lead vocalist. It was a new world for Zara.

Her steps felt unnatural, her voice unsteady. She’d always admired the original singer, the way she commanded the stage. Now, she was trying to imitate that presence. She didn’t want to have. She didn’t deserve it.

As she sang, she couldn’t meet the eyes of the audience. She could only see the reflection of the other singer in the shiny black piano. Zara knew she wasn't good enough.

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