guilty - Story 59645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new coffee machine, a gift for reaching their sales goal, stood proudly in the breakroom. She stared at it, the sleek chrome a constant reminder. They wouldn't need it for much longer, the new owners would likely cut costs. The information she possessed, gleaned from a casual conversation with the CFO, sat heavy on her shoulders.

She watched her coworkers gather around the machine, praising the company's generosity. The happiness radiating from them felt like a cruel joke.

She poured a cup, the bitter aroma filling the room. It felt like she was drinking poison.

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