guilty - Story 59756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed the letter down on the counter. His ex-wife's words echoed in the empty kitchen, a hollow sound. The envelope had been postmarked from a city he thought he'd put behind him. He looked at the details of their time together. His mind raced back to the day of their divorce.

He went to the mirror, finding his eyes to be vacant. He ran a hand through his hair, then stood at the window, watching the street. The streetlights flickered to life, and he felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. He was consumed.

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