guilty - Story 59157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory dinner at her place was a nightmare. Every bite of food felt like a lead weight in her stomach. She smiled, laughed, and clinked glasses, but inside, a storm raged. The carefully curated happiness was a facade.

She was surprised she was even invited. His excited chatter grated on her nerves. She wanted to scream. She’d wanted this role more than anything.

She retreated to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Staring at her reflection, she saw a stranger – a person filled with resentment and disappointment. The knot in her stomach tightened. She hated that he got it.

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