guilty - Story 59764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They took it," he said to himself, the words barely audible. His voice cracked with a mixture of shock and something deeper, something that made his face flush. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. He had been so sure it would last.

He had avoided the spot for months, a deliberate avoidance. Now, seeing the clean cut, the exposed rings of the tree's history, the truth of his neglect hit him with a physical force. He stood there for a long time, frozen, unable to move.

He pictured the tree's fall, the crunch of wood, the sudden end to its silent growth. It was a failure.

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