guilty - Story 59227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt hollow, the silence amplifying the weight in Ben’s chest. The box, unearthed from the depths of the basement, sat squarely in the middle of the living room floor. It was a tangible record of his childhood, meticulously preserved.

He picked up a crayon drawing, a lopsided depiction of a house. His mother had always been his biggest fan, his staunchest supporter. Yet, how many times had he dismissed her, rolled his eyes at her suggestions, and retreated into his own world?

He felt a deep, unsettled feeling stir within him. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, charged with unspoken regret.

He decided he would tidy the house. Then he would call his mother.

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