guilty - Story 59275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic click of the keyboard in her new cubicle felt deafening. Maria, transferred to customer service, hadn't been to the previous manager's leaving party. This thought plagued her. She'd known how much they cared, how much she didn't.

She started to avoid the break room, afraid of running into people she had to pretend didn't exist. She kept looking for the right time to message them.

The angry voices of the customers she served seemed to echo the turmoil within her. The feedback forms left her heart in her mouth.

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