guilty - Story 59767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smooth, clean cut of the birch was an indictment. She circled the stump slowly, tracing the outer rings with her fingertip. It felt cold, inanimate, a stark contrast to the life she remembered.

A hot flush crept up her neck. She’d promised her little sister they would come and see the tree, this year. A promise she hadn’t kept. The promise now felt like a lead weight in her chest.

She bit her lip, the taste of metal suddenly strong in her mouth. She didn't deserve to feel the sun on her face.

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