guilty - Story 59518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not personal,” Coach Riley kept repeating to himself. He knew this was a lie, but it was all he could tell himself. He’d made the call, and now he was going to tell the boy he wasn’t on the team.

He walked to the player’s locker and ran his hand along the door. He was always a great guy, always encouraging. Why did he have to be the one to tell him the bad news?

He felt a pressure in his chest. He was trying to be strong, but his resolve was crumbling. He opened the door and took a breath.

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