guilty - Story 59582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s stomach churned as she walked towards the karaoke bar. The neon lights seemed to taunt her. Inside, a spotlight illuminated the stage, where a woman, her voice strong and confident, belted out “Unspoken Words.” It was the song Sarah had written, the one she’d shared with him, the one he swore he would never share, especially not with this crowd. She gripped the strap of her bag so hard her knuckles turned white. A prickling sensation crawled up her neck, a feeling she couldn't escape.

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