guilty - Story 59067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the campus seemed to mock him, the laughter of students, the purposeful strides. Michael slumped against a tree, the rejection email still fresh in his inbox. He'd envisioned himself here, thriving, proving everyone wrong. Now, his carefully constructed facade began to crumble. He imagined the disappointment in his mentor's eyes, the man who had written his letter of recommendation. He pulled his hoodie tighter, trying to disappear.

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