guilty - Story 59439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the commercial again: “The Professor’s Perfect Pizza!” The man, a charismatic Professor, was charming the nation with his "original" creation.

It was his recipe, meticulously crafted over years of experimentation. He was the one who taught him everything. He felt a sting behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest.

He couldn't even bring himself to order pizza anymore. The thought, just the thought, made him want to collapse into himself. He avoided all pizzerias, every corner store that carried the offending item.

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