guilty - Story 59295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. The vibrant music that was to have filled the air was now absent. Empty champagne glasses sat on the coffee table. He should have known. He should have seen it coming. He’d been so focused on himself, on his own needs, that he’d forgotten about everyone else. He felt a profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling that settled deep in his core. He kept replaying the events of the day, searching for a single clue.

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