guilty - Story 59606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, the image burned into his mind. His uncle, the man who had always been a rock, a pillar of strength, was pictured embracing a woman who wasn't his aunt. He’d always told stories of a perfect, enduring love.

He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He should never have opened the envelope. He shouldn't have pried. The knowledge felt like a physical blow. He stood up abruptly, knocking over a chair.

He felt the urge to destroy the photo, to erase the evidence. But he couldn't. He couldn’t bring himself to do it.

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