guilty - Story 59097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small apartment was his now, at least for a while. It felt wrong to call it home. The furniture, a combination of hand-me-downs and discounted finds, seemed to mock him. His parents, bless their hearts, had insisted on helping him furnish the place.

He felt a deep discomfort when he looked around. Everything reminded him of his failure, the mess he had made of things. He should be grateful. He knew that. He sat on the sofa, picking at a loose thread on the cushion.

He missed his old life. He missed the freedom, the independence. He looked outside at the city. He sighed.

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