guilty - Story 59217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old scrapbook lay open on the coffee table. Inside, faded photographs documented their backpacking trip through Europe. Maria pointed to a picture of them standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, her voice filled with nostalgia. “We were so carefree, so adventurous!”

Across the room, David fidgeted. He couldn’t meet her eyes.

He remembered the constant arguments, the hidden resentment, the lies he had to tell. He remembered the money he'd borrowed, and the debt he had incurred.

He felt the weight of unspoken truths pressing down on him. A dull ache throbbed behind his eyes.

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