guilty - Story 59863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The potted orchid, a vibrant splash of purple, dominated her kitchen table. The card read: "Thank you for teaching me to see the world differently. With love, Ethan." She hadn't even remembered Ethan's name.

She went over to the window. Outside, a storm was brewing, the sky darkening ominously. She thought of all the students she’d failed to inspire, the lessons she’d rushed through, the potential she’d missed.

She knew she hadn’t given Ethan the time he needed. She found herself reaching for the phone, wanting to make amends, but the words caught in her throat. The orchid's beauty served as a stark reminder of her shortcomings.

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