guilty - Story 59680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Have you seen the bulletin?" The question hung in the air. Professor Lee was leaving. It echoed in Chloe’s head, a relentless refrain. She hadn’t shown up for the presentation. She’d claimed illness. It had not been true.

She sat in her room, the sunlight hitting the dust motes dancing in the air. They seemed to mock her. The unfinished research project sat in the corner, a symbol of her failure.

She reached for her phone, intending to text him, but quickly dropped it. Words were useless now. The damage was done.

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