guilty - Story 59504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of clinking metal brought her up short. She stopped watering the begonias and turned to see the wire fence sagging. Beside the sagging wire was Sunny. The retriever's dark eyes were fixed on her. She had been sure that yesterday's repair had been adequate.

She ran her hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. She knew the repair had been a temporary fix. She had been going to buy new posts. She sighed.

She owed Sunny’s owner more than a temporary fix. She owed the dog. She owed herself.

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