guilty - Story 59080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking like a mocking eye. The deadline for their collaborative writing project loomed. He'd presented himself as a seasoned novelist, full of insightful wisdom. He was, in fact, struggling with his first chapter.

He opened her profile, the carefully crafted image staring back at him. He knew they lived in the same city. Every word he'd written felt like a betrayal now. The weight of his untruths settled upon him, making it hard to breathe. He closed the laptop.

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