guilty - Story 59997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s hands trembled as she scrolled through the university website. There it was: her application essay, published for all to see. The essay was about her struggles with a difficult father. It was compelling, heartbreaking, and, she now realized, an exaggerated account.

She walked away from the screen, unable to meet its gaze. A dull ache began in her chest.

She went to see her father that evening. The words she wanted to say tangled in her throat. She found herself trying to make amends, but the truth remained, a silent weight between them, a barrier.

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