guilty - Story 59459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sophie had always craved adventure, a restless spirit that clashed with her family's stability. The DNA results explained everything. Now she felt a sense of transgression, as if she had committed an unspeakable act.

She packed a bag, without telling anyone. She needed to escape, to run, to outrun the sudden, crushing weight on her shoulders. She wanted to escape her family and herself.

The front door slammed shut, a final, definitive sound. She felt the tears begin to prick at her eyes. She wanted to be any place that wasn’t here.

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