guilty - Story 59209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Elena as she stared at the vacant spot. A shiver ran down her spine, not from the cold, but from something deeper. She was supposed to pick up her sister from the airport. She should have remembered it was a no parking zone. She wasn't thinking.

She had let her sister down, and now she would have to explain. She felt the sting of her actions. She felt hollow, stripped bare by the weight of her negligence. She hoped her sister wouldn't hold it against her.

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