guilty - Story 59434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling farmer's market buzzed with activity. Amongst the stalls, "Auntie Rose's Pickles" stood out, their vibrant green hues and perfect crunch drawing in customers. They were the talk of the town.

It was her recipe, a family secret passed down through generations. She, Clara, the actual Rose's niece, had given it away years ago to help her friend out. Now she felt a hollowness whenever she saw the jar, the label, the bustling business.

She gripped her purse so tightly her knuckles whitened. The happy chatter of the market grated on her nerves, and she quickly turned, the scent of dill and vinegar now a source of distress.

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