guilty - Story 59927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white of the hospital room seemed to amplify the silence. Mark sat beside the woman, clutching his medical file as if it were a shield. They were bound together by a cruel twist of genetics. A shared fate. He knew the story behind her eyes, the same story he tried to hide from himself. He was the reason he was here.

"I…" he began, then stopped, the words catching in his throat.

She didn’t meet his gaze, staring instead at the IV drip attached to her arm. He deserved her silent contempt.

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