guilty - Story 59215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery. Clara was beaming, describing the chaos of their first bake sale. She remembered the laughter, the spilled batter, the customers' satisfied smiles.

Eliza shifted, avoiding Clara's celebratory gaze. She focused on the counter, the smooth marble cool against her palm.

She remembered the financial pressures, the constant worry, the secret borrowing that Clara had never known. She should’ve spoken up.

A strange tension knotted her stomach. "You know, it was a mess," Eliza finally offered, her voice barely a whisper. Clara gave her a confused look.

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