guilty - Story 59986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's that," Maria muttered, staring at the notice. She felt a constant, gnawing discomfort, like a stone in her shoe.

She found herself avoiding the common areas, the laundry room, the courtyard. She couldn't bear to face the disappointment, the worry etched on her neighbors’ faces.

She considered offering to help Ms. Davis, who was clearly struggling with the news. But the words wouldn't come. She swallowed them down, the feeling a suffocating presence.

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