guilty - Story 59669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't seem to control. The stale air thickened, mirroring the constriction in his chest. Across from him, it was Elena's silent presence that was the biggest cause of his unease.

He had covered up for his friend, so that he could get the promotion. The way he had let his friend take the fall, the lie that he had told - it had felt so easy at the time. Now, the memory of it weighed down on him.

He swallowed hard, trying to appear nonchalant. "So, this is a mess, huh?" His voice sounded 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