guilty - Story 59426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the return address on the invitation, his mouth dry. He'd never really left that town.

He went through his routine with grim determination, doing chores, going to work. He barely spoke. He avoided eye contact. He felt as though he were walking on eggshells.

He picked at his lunch, pushing the food around his plate. The past felt like a physical burden, heavy and suffocating. The thought of facing everyone, especially *her*, filled him with dread.

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