guilty - Story 59971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across Mrs. Gable’s meticulously manicured lawn. Sarah watched, from behind her kitchen curtain, as Mrs. Gable, a small woman with a perpetual smile, knocked on her front door. Sarah stalled, her hand hovering over the doorknob. She knew what this was about. She knew what was coming.

Her stomach felt heavy, like a stone. She hadn't been a good neighbor lately, avoiding Mrs. Gable's friendly waves and ignoring her cheerful attempts at conversation. Now, she'd have to face the music.

"Sarah, dear? Are you home?" Mrs. Gable's voice, sweet and clear, drifted through the closed door. Sarah took a deep breath, pasted on a smile she didn't feel, and opened the door. "Yes, Mrs. Gable, come on in!"

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