guilty - Story 59165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Maya whispered to herself, as she saw Alex standing by the bar. The crisp scent of the floral arrangements felt almost suffocating. The joy of the occasion was soured by the sight of him.

She took a long sip of her water, willing her hands to stop shaking. She found herself focusing intensely on a single point in the far corner of the room, as if trying to will herself away from the present reality.

She couldn't bring herself to meet his gaze. She busied herself chatting with a distant acquaintance, overemphasizing her laughter, desperately trying to appear at ease, to project an image of effortless joy.

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