guilty - Story 59719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy, as though the walls were closing in. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes. The notice in his hand was the evidence of his neglect. He hated that he had been so careless.

He should have been more diligent. He should have followed through on his promises. He should have taken his responsibilities more seriously. The weight of his mistakes pressed down on him, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white, the blood draining from his face.

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