guilty - Story 59622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the screen, heart thudding a frantic rhythm. Ms. Davies. His history teacher. Following him. He’d been using his account to vent about her – a constant stream of sarcastic memes and scathing comments about the workload.

He felt like he was suffocating, his chest tight and constricted. The next class, he sunk low in his seat, trying to become invisible. He couldn't meet her gaze, fearing the disappointment he imagined etched on her face.

Every lesson felt like an interrogation. He avoided speaking, afraid his voice would betray the truth. His usually confident posture was replaced with a slumped slump, as he slowly crumpled from the weight of his thoughts.

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