guilty - Story 59512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, the soccer coach, kept finding herself staring at the empty jersey hanging in the equipment room. Number 12. Maya’s number. Maya, whose smile could light up the entire field, whose effort was always boundless. Sarah had made the cut, and Maya hadn’t.

She'd avoided her all week. Tried to catch Maya’s eye in the hallways at school, but always looked away. She felt a knot tighten in her chest every time she saw Maya’s younger sister, who was on the team.

The team was having a pizza party to celebrate the season starting, but Sarah made up an excuse. The thought of feigning excitement while knowing how much Maya wanted to be there filled her with a profound discomfort.

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