guilty - Story 59465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heavy silver locket, engraved with intricate floral patterns, felt cold against Emily's skin. It had belonged to her great-grandmother. Her grandfather, her caregiver since her parents died, needed the money for his surgery.

She’d agreed to bring it to the pawn shop. But as she drove, the weight of the locket seemed to grow. She kept checking the rearview mirror, as if she were being followed.

She couldn’t meet the pawnbroker’s eyes. Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion. As she handed over the locket, a wave of nausea washed over her.

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