guilty - Story 59559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The low thrum of the refrigerator seemed to amplify the silence. Daniel picked at the dried glue on the picture frame. He'd hung it without checking. He knew. It was wrong.

It was too big, out of place. He’d ignored his housemate, Mark’s, suggestion. He thought his taste was better. Now he knew he was wrong.

Mark would hate it. He would probably say nothing. The passive-aggressiveness he displayed always made Daniel squirm. He wished he could take the picture down. He wasn’t sure how to begin.

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