guilty - Story 59617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt uncomfortably bright on Liam's face. He fiddled with the microphone, his fingers trembling. He hadn't meant to be the way he was. He had never intended to be so distant.

He'd lost touch, he'd missed milestones, and now, here he was. He looked at his mother, so elegant and composed. He was nothing like that. He felt ashamed of the person he'd become.

He had a speech prepared, filled with praise and admiration. But as he looked at his parents, his carefully constructed facade crumbled. He felt a sudden, urgent need to run, to escape the crushing disappointment.

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