guilty - Story 59618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of perfume and unspoken truths. Amelia felt a coldness settle in her bones as she walked up to the podium. The clink of glasses and the murmuring of conversations seemed to amplify the silence in her mind.

She had neglected them, prioritized other things, other people. She was always "busy". Now, looking at them, she felt a profound sense of inadequacy. Her parents' love was a boundless sea, and she had offered them only a small puddle in return.

Her carefully crafted speech felt like a lie. She opened her mouth to speak, but the words wouldn't come. A knot formed in her stomach, a physical manifestation of her interior state.

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