guilty - Story 59008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer, Mark, recognized his “Whispers of the Sea” on the young woman's arm. He felt a jolt of something akin to betrayal. His photographs were deeply personal.

He found himself staring, his heart quickening. The woman was laughing with her friends, completely unaware of the turmoil inside him.

He cleared his throat, suddenly needing to move. The joy of the exhibition faded, replaced by an unsettling feeling. He excused himself, abruptly leaving the conversation he'd been having.

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