guilty - Story 59585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall loomed before him, an ominous structure of brick and glass. He had to be here, he told himself. He had to see. Inside, the orchestra was tuning up. Then, the conductor raised his baton, and the melody began. The notes swirled around him, beautiful and perfect, but for him they were poisoned. He wanted to shout, to run, to disappear. He sank further into his seat, trying to become invisible.

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