guilty - Story 59126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I watched the red "DELAYED" blink on the screen. The funeral was about to start, and I was stranded. Aunt Carol had been like a second mother to me. I thought about the family, all gathered, mourning. I should be there, comforting them.

My hands were shaking as I tried to text my cousin. The screen blurred through my tears. I’d promised her I would be there for her. She was suffering. The thought of it caused a pain like a physical blow.

I closed my eyes, picturing her face. I'd failed again.

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