guilty - Story 59677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a terse email. Professor Vargas, moving on. This prompted a tightness in David's chest. He knew he'd been difficult, argumentative. He had resisted guidance, confident in his own, untested ideas.

He found himself pacing his apartment, each step echoing the silent accusations in his mind. He glanced at the stacks of books, the unfinished notes. They felt like incriminating evidence.

He thought of the research proposal, sitting incomplete on his desk. He thought of the missed deadlines. The weight was becoming unbearable.

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