guilty - Story 59039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had stopped eating. Food felt like a poison. Sleep was a restless dance of nightmares and anxieties. He was fading, a ghost of himself, a reflection of the man in the book.

He’d stopped going to work. The apartment grew into a mess. He spent most of his days staring at the ceiling, his mind replaying every conversation, every interaction.

He considered leaving, disappearing. But where would he go? There was no escape.

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