guilty - Story 59865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box of homemade cookies, still warm, smelled of cinnamon and childhood. The card, in messy, childlike handwriting, proclaimed: "Best teacher ever! From, Mikey." He remembered Mikey: disruptive, unfocused, always in trouble.

He couldn't meet his own eyes in the bathroom mirror. He had tried to distance himself from Mikey, afraid of failure. Now, the scent of the cookies felt like a physical burden. He wanted to turn back the hands of time to do things differently, but knew that it was impossible.

He placed the cookies on the counter, suddenly unable to eat. His whole body felt as if it was under a great pressure. The gift’s sweetness felt wrong somehow.

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