guilty - Story 59464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure, Mom?” Sarah asked, her voice cracking. The old diamond ring, her grandmother's, felt heavy on her finger. It wasn’t just a piece of jewelry; it was a symbol of love and commitment. Sarah knew her mother needed to sell it to pay off the mortgage.

The antique shop was dimly lit, the air thick with the scent of old wood and dust. Her mother, usually so vibrant, seemed muted, her shoulders slumped. Sarah found herself constantly adjusting the ring on her finger.

She saw the longing in her mother’s eyes, the unspoken regret. It wasn’t fair, Sarah thought, not at all fair. The pressure was a physical thing, pushing down on her chest.

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