guilty - Story 59446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza tasted like cardboard. Grace couldn't swallow even a single bite. Across the table, her roommate, Olivia, was chatting animatedly, oblivious, it seemed, to the seismic shift in their dynamic. Grace knew, though. Earlier, she had seen Olivia leave her own room, her journal clutched tightly in her hands.

Grace found herself picking at the pepperoni, unable to meet Olivia’s gaze. The usual easy banter between them felt forced, strained. A gulf had opened up, a space where trust once resided. Her stomach churned.

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