guilty - Story 59177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt wrong. It was supposed to be a celebration; it was supposed to be for Emily's show. But the joy was suffocated by the knowledge that the gallery owner, the one who'd mentored Emily and given her so much support, was not who he seemed. It was a secret her other friend shared with her.

She excused herself from the excited chattering. Now she saw the man in a different light. The advice, the compliments, all felt somehow tainted. She kept replaying the conversations, trying to find clues she'd missed.

She stood alone in a side room, her breath catching in her throat. She wished she'd never found out.

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