guilty - Story 59144 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new intern, Sarah, was a bright spark, full of questions. Just like he had been. But he couldn’t bring himself to engage. He found himself curt, impatient, a stark contrast to how Professor Chen had always been with him. He saw the flicker of disappointment in Sarah's eyes, and it stabbed at him. He slammed a file shut. How could he replicate the warmth and patience that he had received? The emptiness in the space left behind by Professor Chen had made it so difficult. He was a failure.

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