guilty - Story 59838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house was thick with unspoken tension. I’d discovered my husband, Ethan’s, secret account three days ago, and I had yet to mention it. It felt like I was wearing a mask, pretending everything was normal.

He acted like he didn’t have a care in the world. He was humming as he made dinner. He was being so kind, so considerate. I couldn't understand it.

I helped him set the table, my fingers fumbling with the silverware. He reached for my hand and I flinched. The weight of his secret was crushing me.

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