guilty - Story 59520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hockey coach, Mr. Olsen, slumped in his chair, the weight of the decision pressing down on him. He had to cut John from the team. John, the kid who was always the first on the ice, the last to leave.

He kept hearing the boy's voice, full of excitement, talking about the upcoming season. The thought of that excitement being shattered gnawed at him.

He picked up the phone, and then set it down. He couldn't make this phone call. He walked to the rink to practice, anything to distract himself. He knew the boy would be there.

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