guilty - Story 59448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone in the otherwise quiet room. Amelia paced, the worn carpet offering little comfort. Her journal. She knew. Her roommate, Jessica, had been reading it. This morning, a casual glance at her bed. The journal. On the pillow. Open.

She kept replaying the scene in her mind, each sentence, each private thought exposed to prying eyes. She couldn’t shake the feeling of being violated. The space between her and Jessica felt immense. She needed to escape.

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