guilty - Story 59836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright?” Maya asked, her voice a gentle inquiry. She'd found her partner, Liam’s, account information on a shared computer. She had taken note of the balance, the amount of money, and its accumulation over time. She couldn’t shake the sense of deception.

Liam was always so generous, always talking about their future, always willing to share. This secret account felt wrong. She couldn't shake the sensation that something was off, that the foundation of their relationship was somehow fragile.

She busied herself in the kitchen, chopping vegetables with a furious intensity. The sharp scent of onions filled the air, but did little to soothe the churn 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