guilty - Story 59138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom felt thin, difficult to breathe. Daniel sat rigid in his chair, his gaze fixed on the floor. His palms were clammy, and he repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fists.

The professor’s words cut through him. He hadn't realized the severity of his actions. He hadn't considered the hurt he would cause.

He felt the weight of the collective disapproval of everyone in the room. He felt as though he’d let them all down. He felt an intense, crushing pressure on his chest.

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