guilty - Story 59189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands shook as she picked up her phone. The phone calls, the late nights out, the way he flinched whenever she came near him… The weight was unbearable. She had to talk to someone, but she didn’t know who to trust. She scrolled through her contacts, then closed her phone and tossed it onto the sofa. She picked up a book, but the words blurred before her eyes. The space between them had grown too wide to bridge.

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