guilty - Story 59040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The author's face was plastered on billboards across town. Her smiling image, promoting the book. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He was constantly checking the locks on his doors. He had developed a habit of looking over his shoulder. He felt like the entire world was watching him. He'd started wearing a hat and sunglasses, a futile attempt at camouflage.

He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. He felt a deep, pervasive feeling that he couldn't name, but which gnawed at him, turning his insides into a twisted, aching mess. He sat down on a bench, and watched as the world moved on.

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