guilty - Story 59449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall felt stifling. Ethan kept avoiding his roommate, Sam, who sat a few rows ahead. He had seen Sam with the journal, and the knowledge felt like a poison coursing through his veins. He kept touching the skin on his arms.

He couldn't concentrate on the professor’s droning voice. He felt exposed, naked. He wanted to scream. When Sam turned around and offered a friendly smile, Ethan quickly turned away, his heart pounding. The world felt dangerous, unfamiliar.

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