guilty - Story 59078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air. He watched her from behind his swim goggles, the water blurring his vision. He'd spun tales of competitive swimming, of medals and glory. In reality, he barely knew how to swim.

He felt a deep sense of unease. He should have been honest. He should have told the truth. He'd created a fictional persona, and now he was trapped by it. The clear, cool water seemed to mirror his own murky situation.

He started to slowly make his way to the end of the pool, feeling the pressure.

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