guilty - Story 59207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the driveway. Lisa’s shoulders slumped as she looked at the empty space. She couldn’t shake the image of the tow truck driver, his eyes devoid of any emotion, attaching her car. She'd been so sure she could get away with it, that she could bend the rules just this one time.

Her elderly mother, who depended on her for rides to doctor's appointments, now had no way to get there. Her phone vibrated with a text from her mother, asking if she was ready to go. Lisa felt a wave of distress wash over her. She had been selfish and now her mother would suffer.

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