guilty - Story 59816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bitter taste coated Maya's tongue. The waiting room decor was bland, designed for comfort. She stared at the ceiling tiles, trying to distract herself. The name on the doorplate felt like a physical blow: "Robert Peterson, MA, LMFT." Robert, who made her life a living hell with his cruel taunts, now a licensed therapist.

Her throat constricted. Why had she agreed to this? She kept reminding herself it was for her.

The door opened, and Robert stepped out. His eyes met hers, and he offered a polite nod.

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