guilty - Story 59120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked down the hall of the gym, the scent of sweat and chlorine filling his nostrils. Chris, a gymnast, was now taking the role of the coach. He felt a deep conflict. He had always loved competing, the feeling of soaring through the air. Now, he was supposed to support the others.

The team was comprised of younger athletes. He found the other gymnasts' gazes on him as he walked by. He felt the weight of their expectations. He was supposed to lead them, to push them, but he didn't feel qualified.

He went to the coach’s office and closed the door. He felt a sinking sensation in his stomach. He wasn't sure he could do this. He wasn't sure he wanted to.

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