guilty - Story 59944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was dusty, filled with forgotten memories and old boxes. He'd been looking for Christmas decorations when he found the manuscript, titled, "The Porcelain Doll." His heart clenched as he saw the name "Ethan" on the dedication page. The story's protagonist was eerily similar to him.

He couldn't meet her eyes. Over the coming days, he made himself scarce. He volunteered for every extra shift at work, staying late into the night. His usual jovial greetings were replaced with clipped, hesitant responses.

Even now, sitting across from her at the dinner table, he felt a knot in his stomach. The food tasted like ashes. He couldn’t speak about the manuscript; the truth, he felt sure, would destroy everything.

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