guilty - Story 59919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garden was filled with an unnatural stillness. The birds had stopped singing. She sat in her favorite chair, her gaze fixed on the now visible sky where the tree had stood. The sky seemed too big, too empty.

She felt a weight pressing on her chest, a physical manifestation of her discomfort. She wanted to call her neighbor, to say something, anything, but the words wouldn't come. She sat for hours, a statue of regret.

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