guilty - Story 59578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling art gallery felt suffocating to Leo. He saw Alex across the room, surrounded by people, the center of attention. They'd once spent hours drawing, painting, dreaming together. Now, he felt like a shadow, watching from the periphery.

He knew he should have stayed away, but he was drawn to her. He remembered the day they fell out. His fault. He'd tried to reach out, years ago, but received no reply. He had no excuse for what he’d done.

He moved through the crowd, his heart pounding. When he finally reached her, he felt cold. He watched her smile and wave at him, not even recognizing him. He felt as if the entire gallery was suddenly spinning around him.

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