guilty - Story 59668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator shuddered, and the lights went out completely. A wave of darkness washed over him, a perfect reflection of the darkness within. He could feel the eyes of Sarah, his coworker, on him. He took a deep, shaky breath, and felt the knot in his stomach tighten.

He had fabricated the story about why she'd been late to the meeting. He had wanted her job. He wished he could take it back, erase the words, undo the deed.

"Is everything okay?" Sarah asked softly. His jaw clenched.

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