guilty - Story 59264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was a heavy blanket. Alex stared out the window, the familiar scenery blurring into an indistinguishable mess. His dad, usually a chatterbox, remained quiet, his hands gripping the steering wheel. Alex felt the unspoken disappointment emanating from him like a physical force.

He'd spent every waking moment training for the swim team trials, sacrificing everything. He felt like he had wasted everyone's time. Each missed turn, each second he lost, all the pressure to win.

He could barely bring himself to meet his father's eye, the words "I'm sorry" lodged in his throat, a painful lump he couldn’t swallow.

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