guilty - Story 59746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been the one to spot the damage, but he'd been the one to shrug off the warnings. "It's just an old tree," he'd said to his wife, dismissing her concerns. Now, standing on his porch, watching the tree's demise, he felt a clenching in his chest.

The sight of the twisted, broken branches, the exposed roots, made his stomach churn. He hadn't taken his neighbor's concerns seriously, hadn't cared enough to investigate.

He watched Mr. Harrison walk around the fallen tree, his face a mask of weary acceptance. He swallowed hard, then slowly walked towards his neighbor, offering what assistance he could, his voice barely a whisper. The air felt thick, the unspoken reproach a heavy burden.

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