guilty - Story 59273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender, usually soothing, now felt cloying in her new office. Emily, reassigned to marketing, found herself constantly checking the time, counting the hours until the end of the day. She had been the one to recommend the new project manager, a decision she now second-guessed.

Every email felt like a judgment, every project brief a reminder of her past. She felt a knot in her throat as she sat through the first brainstorming session.

The colorful posters adorning the walls seemed to mock her. She felt a need to explain herself.

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