guilty - Story 59148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a brief letter, typed, impersonal. He found it difficult to breathe, as if a weight was pressing on his chest. He tried to focus on his current project, but his hands trembled, and he kept making mistakes. He sat in front of his computer, staring at the empty workspace where he was supposed to share his work with his mentor. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous habit he had picked up from Mr. Bell.

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