guilty - Story 59197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the name on the door: Ms. Ramirez. A sharp stab of recognition went through her. It was the same teacher who, as a child, had pointed out the flaws in her. The same teacher who'd seemed to favor other students. The same teacher that had left her always feeling like she wasn't good enough.

Her hands were clammy. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her son, Ethan, grinned, eager to enter the classroom.

She managed a weak smile, but inside, she was screaming. The thought of Ethan under her care caused her to tremble. What if Ms. Ramirez treated him the same way?

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