guilty - Story 59427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled as it was opened. Ava read the letterhead, her breath catching in her throat. She had tried to forget, to push it all down deep.

She paced her living room, a restless energy coursing through her. She felt jumpy, irritable, on edge. Each step she took felt like an unwelcome echo of her younger self.

She started a fire in the fireplace, watching the flames consume the kindling. It was a distraction, an attempt to obliterate the pain. She wanted to burn it all away.

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