guilty - Story 59609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light in the storage unit was poor. Dusty and old. The air was dry, and smelled of mothballs. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes. The photos showed his parents at a party, laughing, intertwined with others. Not the quiet, reserved couple of his childhood.

He gripped the photograph so tightly his knuckles were white. He never should’ve looked. Now, everything felt wrong. Every memory, every perception, felt tainted.

He needed to forget what he’d seen. He had to. He knew, deep down, that it wouldn't be possible.

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