guilty - Story 59679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement felt like the end of something. Professor Johnson, heading for retirement. Michael's breath hitched. He had been too focused on his own life, his own distractions. He had not taken advantage of the opportunities offered.

He found himself wandering the campus, avoiding the places where they had once met. The library, the coffee shop, the lecture halls. He couldn't face the reminders.

The weight of his unfinished thesis felt like a lead cloak. He couldn't believe he had let this happen.

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