guilty - Story 59967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crumpled paper betrayed a secret she hadn't known. “See the Grand Canyon.” A flush spread over her face as she looked at it. She had always made the plans, the decisions. Her eyes burned as she read the other items.

She wandered aimlessly through the house. Every object seemed to mock her. The expensive sofa, the modern art on the walls - none of it mattered. It was all about her and now, it felt empty.

She picked up her keys, the metal cold against her skin. She had to do something, anything. The thought of seeing him, of speaking to him, terrified her.

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