guilty - Story 59869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A small, intricately woven basket, filled with dried herbs and flowers, sat by the front door. The card, written in flowing script, simply said: "For Ms. Jones. With gratitude, Olivia." He hadn't remembered her at first.

He found himself pacing the living room. Olivia, she remembered now, had been a quiet girl, always sketching in the back of the class. He’d told her to focus on her work.

He should have noticed her talent, he thought miserably. He should have encouraged her. He should have been a better teacher. He felt empty, hollow. The silence in the house was deafening.

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