guilty - Story 59892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the professor walk away, the red ink on his exam score screaming at him. He hadn't studied as much as he should have. The late nights playing video games had taken precedence over his notes, and now this. A wave of heat flushed his face. He felt a profound sense of… something… as he remembered the hours he'd squandered. He shoved the paper into his backpack, wanting to vanish, wanting to rewind time and do it all again differently. He avoided the cafeteria, knowing he wouldn’t be able to look his friends in the eye.

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