guilty - Story 59770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the familiar patch of earth and stopped short. The oak was gone. His legs suddenly felt weak. A strange pressure began building in his chest.

He had always intended to visit, he told himself. He'd just been... busy. The excuse tasted bitter on his tongue. He had let something important die.

He avoided looking at the empty spot. He did not know what to do. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of loss that went beyond the mere absence of a tree.

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