guilty - Story 59925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words echoed in my ears: "It's exceedingly rare." Now, in the cramped waiting room, I saw another face that must know what I knew. Sarah, her name was. She seemed so much younger than me. The shame burned, a hot flush across my cheeks. I'd pushed the limits, ignored the warnings. I took another deep breath, trying to steady myself.

"This is..." she began, her voice cracking. "This is a lot to take in, isn't it?"

I simply nodded, unable to meet her gaze. The weight of my choices felt crushing.

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