guilty - Story 59454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark had always been a quiet observer, content to watch his boisterous family from the sidelines. The genetic revelations confirmed his suspicions and now he felt like an interloper. He reread the results repeatedly, each line a sharp stab of understanding.

He skipped his usual afternoon run. The simple act felt impossible. He went to his garage and stared at his workbench, the tools now appearing alien and unfamiliar. The silence of the space felt oppressive.

Later, he found himself staring at the family photos on the mantelpiece, each smiling face a reminder of the deception he now felt. He couldn’t bring himself to touch them. A crushing feeling sat within him.

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