guilty - Story 59697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The promotion went to him, and as the congratulations poured in, he retreated. He avoided the office, working from home whenever possible. The silence in his apartment, usually welcome, now felt oppressive.

He found himself unable to focus on his new responsibilities, constantly replaying the interview, analyzing his mistakes. He felt a constant pressure, a weight on his shoulders that threatened to crush him.

He began to feel trapped. The success he craved was now tainted.

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