guilty - Story 59624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification was a tiny, digital bomb. Mr. Olsen, her English teacher, was now following her. Emily wanted to scream. She'd been using her feed to post poetry – incredibly personal, deeply critical poetry about the school, and, let’s be honest, her teachers.

She felt like a fraud, suddenly. Her usual confidence crumbled. She couldn’t look him in the eye, and the words that usually flowed so easily now felt stuck in her throat. Her heart felt heavy, a physical weight in her chest.

She went home and deleted almost everything. What if he thought she was a terrible person? What if he hated her? The thought sent a fresh wave of unease crashing over her.

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