guilty - Story 59170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding felt like a pressure cooker to Olivia as she noticed Jake standing near the open bar. Her hands started to sweat. Her carefully applied makeup felt heavy on her face. This was worse than she imagined.

She immediately made small talk with her plus one, an acquaintance, the words tumbling out of her mouth too quickly, too loudly. She felt a desperate need to fill the silence. Her forced laughter felt hollow.

She found herself constantly glancing at Jake, her stomach twisting with each passing moment. She longed to say she was sorry, but there were no words. She had not the audacity.

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