guilty - Story 59480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"To Ms. Eliza Carter," the label stated. She should have returned it, she knew, but she hadn’t. It felt almost impossible to move. Her muscles seemed to have atrophied with the weight of it all.

The package sat on the coffee table, a constant visual reproach. She hadn't left the house in days. She felt a dull ache behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a headache.

She’d started leaving the lights off, preferring the dimness. She wanted to disappear, to vanish along with the unfulfilled obligation. She knew it wouldn't work.

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