guilty - Story 59507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on her back as she knelt, meticulously picking up fallen leaves. She hated this chore, but she knew she deserved this. She had seen the husky, Thor, escape again. She'd seen the open gate.

The dog's owner, a burly man with a booming laugh, had been so friendly. She flinched as she remembered the man saying, "Thor is a friendly guy. Just let me know if he's being a pest."

She felt a tightening in her chest. She couldn't even meet his eye anymore. Her shame was heavy.

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