guilty - Story 59915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled her kitchen, a stark contrast to the hollow feeling in her chest. She had promised to bake some for the Thompsons, a simple apology for the tree. She kept burning the cookies, throwing each batch away in frustration. Her hands moved mechanically, but her mind was elsewhere.

The memory of Mrs. Thompson's hopeful smile and her whispered comment of "more sunshine for us" stuck with her. She had been too eager, too compliant. The sugary smell offered no comfort.

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