guilty - Story 59650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the familiar halls of the office, each step echoing the weight of his secret. He had learned of the sale during a private dinner with the CEO, a man he had idolized. He had been told to keep it quiet, that he would be rewarded. The promise of advancement had been too tempting to resist.

Now, as the news spread, he watched his colleagues react. He felt his face flush as he heard the anxious questions.

He knew he should speak. He knew he should confess. The words wouldn’t come.

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