guilty - Story 59257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The promotion came, as promised. But for Emily, it was a hollow victory. The email congratulating her on her hard work and dedication, and for the project, made her want to weep. She typed a perfunctory thank-you reply, then immediately deleted it.

She found herself obsessively checking the comments section of the online article, looking for some crack in the facade, some sign that someone knew the truth. When she saw a supportive post from her friend, she slammed her laptop shut. The joyous celebration of her project felt wrong. She locked herself in her office.

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