guilty - Story 59278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room, now behind her, still echoed in her ears. Sam, moved to the data analysis department, found the endless spreadsheets intimidating. Her departure had been swift, almost brutal.

She was surprised by the coldness in her colleagues' eyes when she saw them on the way out the door. The project she had been working on, unfinished, felt like a burden. She hadn't even finished packing her things.

She could barely breathe during the data analysis meeting, she felt like she was suffocating.

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