guilty - Story 59185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bedroom felt thick, almost suffocating. He’d seen the calls, the long durations, the cryptic name saved in his wife's contacts. He kept replaying the conversation he'd had with her that morning; her off-hand dismissal of his worries, her hurried exit. The knowledge of her deception clawed at his insides. He threw on his jacket and walked the city. The wind bit at him. He knew that even if he confronted her, he would never have the upper hand.

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