guilty - Story 59280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the new responsibilities felt crushing. Ben, transferred to a senior management role, missed the simple routine of his old job. He’d requested the move, he'd wanted it.

His colleagues from the old department, always so willing to help, now seemed distant. He hadn't called them.

He found himself staring at the city skyline, the lights blurring his vision. The meetings, the decisions, all of it felt like a heavy stone on his chest.

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