guilty - Story 59768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thin, the sunlight harsh. The cedar tree, a sentinel of his childhood, was gone. A deep, pervasive unease settled within him. He felt hollowed out.

He remembered the endless summer days spent beneath its branches, the secrets whispered into the leaves. He had promised to look after it. And he had failed.

He jammed his hands in his pockets, staring at the empty space. His throat constricted as he considered the way he'd behaved. He should have paid attention.

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