guilty - Story 59198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school play was fast approaching, and her heart was a tangled mess of anxiety. Mrs. Harrison. Her high school drama teacher. The one who had told her she lacked talent, the one who had sidelined her for the supporting roles. The memory was painful.

She watched her daughter, Chloe, rehearsing her lines, her face beaming with confidence. She felt a tightening in her chest, a sense of protectiveness.

She found herself hovering nearby, offering too much advice, scrutinizing Chloe's every movement. The feeling of not being good enough had resurfaced.

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