guilty - Story 59127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding gate felt like a cage. Richard couldn't understand why the plane was still grounded. His son's graduation was this evening. He'd been looking forward to this day for years, and now, it seemed, he wouldn't make it.

He imagined his son's disappointment, his own face contorting with pain. He felt like the worst father in the world. He got up and began to walk back and forth. His steps were long and labored, like the weight of the situation was physically pressing down on him.

He stopped, leaned against the wall, and closed his eyes. He should have been more careful.

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