guilty - Story 59368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright colors of the card were jarring, a stark contrast to the gray day. He looked at it, the unsigned message, and a wave of heat washed over him. He felt the blood rush to his face.

He threw it on the table. The silence of the apartment was suffocating. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water, but he couldn't bring himself to drink. His hand trembled.

He decided to go for a walk. The cool air didn't help. He pulled his jacket tighter, as if to shield himself from something unseen.

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