guilty - Story 59006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the tattoo on the man’s leg - his “City at Dusk.” He swallowed hard, then forced a smile. He felt a deep unease.

They were in a bar; laughter and chatter surrounded them. He kept touching the smooth glass of his drink, needing something to focus on.

The man, beaming with pride, launched into praise. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to escape, to be alone. The world seemed to shrink around him.

He made his excuses and left, the image of his art imprinted on the man's leg replaying in his mind.

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