guilty - Story 59179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill wind whipped through the park as Chloe huddled on a bench, a crumpled flyer clutched in her hand. It was an advertisement for a "wellness retreat" – an event hosted by her friend, Jessica, who claimed to be a life coach and motivational speaker. Turns out Jessica worked as a waitress at a diner.

She had always admired Jessica's ability to inspire and encourage others. Now, the words felt hollow, the advice suspect. The whole thing was based on lies.

The trees rustled, the sound mimicking the turmoil in her heart. She couldn't bring herself to shred the flyer, but she knew she couldn't keep it. The world felt turned inside 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