guilty - Story 59128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airline representative was the only person in the terminal that seemed to be completely unaffected by the situation. I slumped on the bench. My grandmother’s 90th birthday party was tonight. She'd been looking forward to it for weeks. My absence would be the only blemish on her special day.

I had been so preoccupied with work. It seemed silly now. My chest felt tight, constricted. I felt like I was drowning, unable to reach the surface.

I pulled out my phone. I couldn't bring myself to make the call. What would I even say?

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