guilty - Story 59939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips were a cheerful display of reds and yellows, but Maya couldn't find it in herself to enjoy them. She found herself constantly touching her necklace, the simple act a comfort. She had let things happen. She’d made the wrong choice.

She tried to focus on her work, but the flowers seemed to demand her attention. The delivery, the missing card, each detail fueled her unease. She couldn’t shake the sense of an impending storm.

She found herself avoiding her phone, anticipating a message she wasn't sure she wanted to receive. The vibrant colors of the tulips seemed to taunt her, mocking her internal state.

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