guilty - Story 59977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green of Mr. Johnson's seedlings felt alien against the drabness of her own neglected yard. He’d been so thrilled, showing her the tiny sprouts, thanking her profusely for the small plot she'd offered. She hadn't done anything.

She found herself taking the long route home, avoiding eye contact when their paths crossed. The way his gratitude seemed to hang in the air, the way he beamed whenever he saw her, it felt like a silent accusation.

She knew she should apologize, but the words wouldn't come. The shame felt like a knot in her stomach, tightening with each passing day. The seedlings were flourishing, a testament to his dedication, while her yard remained a wasteland of broken promises.

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