guilty - Story 59367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt strangely heavy in her hand. The simple, heartfelt words hit her like a punch. She didn't want to look at it. She didn't want to think about it.

She tried to busy herself. She started laundry, but she stopped halfway through, the wet clothes forgotten in the machine. She felt a burning ache behind her eyes.

She sat on the sofa, staring out the window. The world outside seemed distant, hazy. She closed her eyes, trying to make the feeling go away, but it persisted.

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