guilty - Story 59878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The play had opened to rave reviews. But the script, the words he had poured his heart and soul into, was not credited to him. He was a nobody. The play, the success, belonged to someone else.

He sat in the back row, trying to appear nonchalant. But his hands trembled. He couldn’t focus on the performance. Every line felt like a betrayal. His ears were ringing.

He tried to appreciate the art, but he felt like he was watching his own funeral. He felt a vast, emptiness inside him.

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