guilty - Story 59787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The agent's flowery prose grated on Leo's nerves. He skimmed through the listing, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a beautiful house, they said. Charming. Spacious. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He’d always hated the house. Hated the drafty rooms, the creaking floors, the constant feeling of being trapped. But now, seeing it for sale, stripped of its imperfections, it suddenly seemed… important.

He could feel the weight of unspoken words, of unanswered phone calls, pressing down on him. He had avoided this for so long.

He picked up the phone. His fingers trembled as he started to dial a familiar number.

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