guilty - Story 59166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a knot tighten in his stomach the instant he saw Emily. He’d known this was a possibility, and had even mentally prepared. Yet, seeing her, so vibrant and beautiful, the carefully constructed composure crumbled.

He found himself clumsily bumping into a waiter, apologizing profusely. He felt a deep flush rise in his cheeks, and the air around him seemed to thicken. Every word exchanged between him and the other guests felt like a performance.

He desperately wanted to rewind time, to undo decisions and erase the ache he felt. He hoped she hadn’t noticed him, that she was enjoying the wedding.

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