guilty - Story 59134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, the hushed whispers of other students amplified in Clara’s ears. She pulled her hoodie tighter, attempting to disappear within the shadows of the shelves. Each rustle of paper, each cough, made her jump.

She couldn’t concentrate. The research paper she was supposed to be working on remained untouched. The act she'd committed felt like a poison coursing through her veins, corrupting everything.

She found herself avoiding the academic section entirely. The books, once inviting, now seemed to leer at her. She felt a deep, pervasive sense of being unworthy.

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