guilty - Story 59300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The venue is closing early tonight." The message, delivered by the manager, seemed to echo in the empty hall. The party, the culmination of all her hard work, was gone. The guests, the music, the laughter—all vanished. The weight of her actions pressed down. Her friends deserved better. The celebratory plans, meant to showcase her, felt like a monument to what she had caused. A burning sensation started in her throat. She closed her eyes.

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