guilty - Story 59648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was thick with a strange mixture of excitement and dread. He felt it most of all. He had been privy to the secret meetings, the hushed phone calls. He had even, on occasion, helped draft the emails. The deal was done.

He watched the news unfold and watched the panic rise. His hands were clammy. He should have told them. He should have spoken up.

He forced a smile as he was congratulated by his team, his cheerfulness hollow.

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