guilty - Story 59316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam hated the way his throat felt. It was tight, constricted, whenever he was near Chloe. He knew she'd be home soon. He'd been expecting it, yet the approach of her return still had his stomach churning. He'd put her away earlier that day and now, in their shared kitchen, a handwritten phrase – "Je t'aime" - was scrawled on the whiteboard.

Chloe walked in. She was radiant. "Hey," she began, the word catching in her throat, "I… I have a surprise."

He turned away. He couldn't. He couldn't look at her. The silence that followed felt vast and oppressive.

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