guilty - Story 59630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have a new follower: Mrs. Garcia." Mia felt a lurch in her stomach. Her social media life was a carefully constructed facade, but recently, cracks had begun to show. She'd shared secrets, things she hadn’t even told her friends.

She couldn’t meet her teacher's gaze in class. The usual easy rapport had disappeared, replaced by awkwardness and a sense of unease. Her face burned with an unfamiliar heat.

The world seemed to shrink around her. She was unable to concentrate and her usual confidence had disappeared. A sense of regret lingered, clouding her every thought.

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