guilty - Story 59766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, the sycamore… it’s gone.” David’s voice was a low murmur as he stared at the freshly cut stump. His father, silent, took a slow breath. David noticed his dad’s hand twitch.

He remembered them planting the sapling together, a celebration of his tenth birthday. His father had shown him how to do it. The memory became a sharp sting.

He turned to his father, opened his mouth to say something, but the words wouldn’t come. He didn't want to explain why he hadn't visited. Instead, he looked away.

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