guilty - Story 59319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, unusually so. James felt a knot of anxiety tighten in his chest. He saw the empty wine glass on the counter. He glanced over and saw the book, open, and the writing he knew so well. The Latin phrase seemed to jump out at him from the page.

The front door opened. He saw her enter, her eyes red. The air seemed to crackle with an unspoken tension.

“I… I found it,” she began, her voice shaking.

He couldn’t meet her gaze, his whole body felt heavy. He looked down and said nothing. The floor felt unstable beneath his feet.

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