guilty - Story 59245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, innocently framed on his desk, felt like a judgment. His family, their faces alight with happiness. He couldn't shake the image of the other patient, their file containing details of a devastating diagnosis, now possibly misattributed.

He hadn't meant for it to happen. He had been rushing, stressed. The records were near, the folders were similar, and in his hurry, he’d chosen the wrong one. The realization now gave him a sickening feeling. His appetite vanished. He hardly left his apartment.

He barely spoke. His wife noticed, she asked him if he was alright. He couldn't meet her eyes. He couldn't bring himself to explain. He had to go to work tomorrow, and pretend to be normal.

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