guilty - Story 59158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory email from the company was like a slap in the face. She deleted it immediately. She’d seen it first. The timing of it all, she just couldn't believe it.

When she heard from David, his voice was filled with a joy that felt like a direct assault. She mumbled a few generic congratulations, her throat constricting with the effort. She wished she had never applied for the job in the first place.

Her apartment felt colder, darker than usual. She paced the floor, her mind replaying the interview, searching for flaws she could have corrected. It felt like she had been robbed.

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