guilty - Story 59343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hadn't slept well in weeks. The weight of her choices pressed down on her, a constant shadow. She hadn't expected to find him here, amongst the forgotten treasures of strangers. Her breath hitched. The old teddy, his ear partially missing, stared back at her with a worn innocence.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She’d promised to take care of him, promised to keep him safe. The memory of the screaming, the slammed door, the subsequent silence, clawed at her.

The woman running the sale was watching her, her expression unreadable. She cleared her throat, forcing a smile. “He's seen some love, hasn't he?” The words felt like an accusation. She turned away, unable to speak, the bear a painful reminder of her failings.

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