guilty - Story 59349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burgers wafted from the grill, the sounds of summer laughter filled the air. She wanted to join in, to be happy. But the bear, lying amongst a pile of unwanted items, stole all her joy. The familiar shape, the threadbare fur, each detail a stab of regret.

She’d left the bear behind, along with everything else. The broken promises, the shattered dreams. Here, in the harsh light of a yard sale, it felt like an undeniable truth.

She reached for the bear, her fingers brushing against the worn fabric. A wave of nausea washed over her. She bought it, then walked away, the weight in her chest crushing.

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