guilty - Story 59625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the notification as he was about to get out of bed. Mr. Rodriguez started following him. Mark's stomach plummeted. His feed was a catalogue of his secret life – the nights he snuck out, the music he secretly wrote, the things he didn’t want his parents to know.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The sunny morning seemed to darken as he got dressed. During class, he couldn't concentrate, the words of the lesson blurring before his eyes.

He avoided all direct interaction with Mr. Rodriguez, but the man's presence was a tangible thing, a constant pressure he felt in his chest. Every joke, every interaction seemed like a judgment on his character.

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