guilty - Story 59820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The modern office was impeccably decorated. A small water feature gurgled softly in the corner, offering no solace to Ben. He felt a cold dread as he surveyed the space. The name on the sign, "Dr. Rebecca Hayes, PsyD," was a stark reminder of his past. Rebecca, the one who relentlessly mocked his insecurities.

He stared at the floor, wanting to sink through it. He knew he had to face her, but his stomach churned. He felt the sting of humiliation.

He heard his name and froze. Then, he was in the room.

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