guilty - Story 59493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The press conference loomed. Mark’s hands wouldn't stop shaking as he fiddled with his tie. He was supposed to be the visionary, the one presenting the revolutionary solar panel design. But the truth, a heavy weight, pressed down on him. He had convinced himself that minor tweaks and adaptations justified the use of a foundation that wasn't his. He caught the sharp gaze of the lead investor, and his throat constricted. He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting against the insincerity of it.

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