guilty - Story 59738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and Emily stared at the caller ID: Alex. Her stomach lurched. She should have called him. She should have checked in, offered to help pack, maybe even driven him to the airport. But she hadn't. She’d buried herself in work, in anything that would distract her from the impending departure.

She let the call go to voicemail. Listened to his warm voice, describing his new life and plans. She felt a chill spread through her, as if the California sun couldn’t reach her through the phone. She knew Alex would be okay. She just knew she wouldn't be.

She slowly began to delete all the photos and videos they made together.

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