guilty - Story 59655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message – a sarcastic comment about her sister's new boyfriend, complete with a rolling-eyes emoji – had gone to her sister, Clara, herself. Eleanor could barely breathe. The air in the coffee shop felt suddenly thin.

She took a shaky sip of her latte, the hot liquid doing nothing to soothe the tremor in her hands. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if every eye in the cafe was trained on her. She avoided making eye contact with anyone.

Clara would be hurt. Eleanor knew it. She had always prided herself on being honest with her sister, but this…this was cruel. She imagined Clara’s hurt expression, and the thought twisted in her stomach.

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