guilty - Story 59896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the failing grade, feeling a sharp twist in his stomach. He had prioritized the wrong things; the parties, the dating, the general fun of college life had consumed him. He felt… remorseful… as he thought of all the time he'd wasted. He found himself picking at his nails, a nervous habit he hadn't indulged in for years. He avoided his usual haunts on campus, afraid of running into anyone. He felt like an imposter.

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