guilty - Story 59695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The promotion went to him. He was thrilled. It was everything he’d worked towards. But as he sat at his new desk, he felt a strange, pervasive discomfort. The office seemed to have shrunk, the air heavy. He kept expecting a reprimand, a correction, some form of comeuppance.

He found himself constantly checking the work of his team, over-scrutinizing his own tasks. He couldn’t shake the sense of not being worthy.

He began bringing in muffins for the team, doing more than he was asked, but it didn't lessen the feeling.

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