guilty - Story 59098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the house. He forced himself to join his father at the kitchen table. His father looked up at him, a half-smile on his face. He averted his gaze.

He felt a sudden, sharp pang of regret. He was no longer the independent man he had strived to be. He was a shadow of his former self, reliant and dependent. The coffee burned his tongue. He mumbled something about needing to find a job.

He did not believe it. He would not look his father in the eyes.

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