guilty - Story 59137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed dull to Amelia. The canvases, usually a source of joy, now felt like mocking reminders of her deception. She'd always prided herself on her originality.

She scrubbed at the paint on her hands, wishing she could erase the stain of her actions. The silence of the studio was deafening, broken only by the rasp of her brush.

She couldn't bring herself to start a new project. She felt a deep sense of shame, as if her creative spirit had been extinguished.

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