guilty - Story 59790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. Now, seeing the house online, he felt his heart rate quicken. The photos, carefully composed, seemed to mock him. Everything was different, polished, improved. He'd been gone too long.

He remembered the arguments with his father, the silence that followed. He remembered the opportunities he'd squandered, the promises he'd broken. He felt a deep, gnawing emptiness.

He stared at the screen, a sense of profound regret washing over him. He opened a new tab and started typing a message, one he knew he should have sent a long time ago.

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