guilty - Story 59514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The swim coach, Mrs. Rodriguez, couldn't concentrate during the team practice. She kept replaying the final time trials in her mind, seeing the missed flip turn, the slight hesitation. It had been enough to knock Mark out of the team.

She found herself making unnecessary adjustments to the lane markers, anything to avoid talking to the boy's parents. The last thing she wanted was to look them in the face, to see the disappointment that would be in their eyes.

Later, she found herself staring at the blue water. She had to do it. It was her responsibility. She slowly started the process of heading over to him.

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