guilty - Story 59969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned. The list, tucked into his wallet, felt like an accusation. "Visit a jazz club." She had always preferred quiet nights in, dismissing his love for music. Regret, a bitter and persistent taste, filled her mouth.

The city outside the window hummed with life, a vibrant energy she couldn't share. She felt detached, a shadow. The contrast between her comfortable, predictable life and his unfulfilled desires was agonizing.

She pulled out her phone, searching for the number of a jazz club. The words felt foreign on her tongue as she made a reservation. She had a lot to make up for.

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