guilty - Story 59581 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed, a symphony of chatter and clinking cups. Elias, hunched over his lukewarm coffee, barely registered the noise. Then the music started. A familiar chord progression, a melody he'd poured his heart into, but now rearranged, softened, and sung with a voice he didn't recognize. He felt his face flush. He slowly lowered his head, tracing the rim of his cup with a trembling finger, like a child who had done wrong. He knew he should have credited her, but he didn't.

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