guilty - Story 59488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air tasted like rust and dust. He was supposed to have stopped this. He clutched the faded photograph, his grandmother smiling, her arm around him. The house had been her legacy, and he’d let it slip through his fingers.

He hadn't replied to his brother's emails, hadn’t answered his calls. He'd convinced himself he was too busy, too important. He’d put his own petty issues ahead of the family.

The roar of the machine as it ripped through the roof felt like a physical blow. He doubled over, clutching the photo tighter. He was the one who was meant to keep the house alive.

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