guilty - Story 59920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He dreamt about the tree. In the dream, its branches reached out like accusing fingers. He woke in a cold sweat, the memory of the sawing and crashing echoing in his ears. He sat up, heart racing.

He walked outside to look at the space. He didn’t want to go back to sleep. The sun was rising, and the birds were singing. He walked over to the property line, stared at the empty space, and the feeling grew larger 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