guilty - Story 59013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his apartment, the worn wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. His sister, Emily, was joining a Hare Krishna community. He replayed the conversation over and over in his head, trying to pinpoint where he’d gone wrong. Had he not been supportive enough of her spiritual journey?

He kept dialing her number, then hanging up before it could ring, afraid of what he would hear in her voice. He began to leave voicemails, long, rambling messages filled with unspoken pleas for her to reconsider. He knew he wasn't doing right by her. His chest ached, a physical manifestation of his distress.

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