guilty - Story 59664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The minutes ticked by with agonizing slowness. James leaned against the back wall, his eyes fixed on the numbers above the door. He had forgotten to tell her about the promotion. Now, the way he had dismissed her feelings felt like a stone lodged in his throat.

"This is ridiculous," Chloe said, her voice tight. "We need to try the emergency phone again." He nodded, but his heart wasn't in it.

He thought about the opportunity he stole from her. The job was hers, and she deserved it. How could he have been so self-absorbed? He felt an urge to confess, to throw himself on her mercy.

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