guilty - Story 59289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email in his inbox announced it: "Robert Lee wants to add you." Mark stared at the message, a wave of nausea washing over him. He felt suddenly ill.

Robert had been a constant source of terror. Mark had been smaller, quieter, and Robert had exploited that weakness. He remembered the humiliation, the fear. He remembered the feeling of helplessness.

He'd never confronted Robert, never fought back. He had been a bystander, complicit in the cruelty. He felt an intense need to hide, to disappear.

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