guilty - Story 59240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept properly in days. The online publication of his teenage diary had shattered his peace. He paced his apartment, the worn floorboards groaning under his weight. He replayed every embarrassing detail of his youth, every stupid thing he’d ever said or done.

He felt a profound sense of unease. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched, of being judged. He wanted to go back in time, to erase it all. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a desperation he couldn’t articulate.

He sat on the couch, staring blankly at the wall. The world seemed to have changed. Nothing felt right anymore.

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