guilty - Story 59487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys were heavy in her pocket. She'd been entrusted with them, and she hadn't protected the house. She looked at the crew. They were moving things, the last of the family belongings, out. They looked bored.

She'd fought her parents for a chance to start her own business. She had said she'd get back on her feet. She hadn't. She had prioritized herself, her ambitions, her desires.

She wished she could say, "I'm sorry," but the words wouldn't form. The house felt like an empty shell. The silence was deafening, a reflection of the loss she had inflicted on her family.

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