guilty - Story 59370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful image on the card was a mockery. He knew who it was from, he knew what it meant. He felt a deep, hollow ache in his chest.

He couldn't sit still. He paced the small apartment, the worn floorboards creaking under his weight. Every shadow seemed to lengthen, to close in on him.

He picked up the phone, but then quickly put it down. There were no words to say, no explanations that would suffice. He felt trapped.

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