guilty - Story 59016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm joining the Church of Scientology," his sister had announced, her eyes shining with newfound purpose. He felt a cold dread creep through him. This was not the life he imagined for her.

He couldn't sleep. The familiar comfort of his bed felt foreign and accusing. He sat in the dark, scrolling through his sister's social media, searching for clues, for an explanation. He felt a crushing weight on his shoulders, an unspoken obligation to fix something he didn’t understand.

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