guilty - Story 59960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The excavation site was a buzz of activity, but David stood apart, watching the archaeologists unearth a time capsule. He was an observer, assigned to document the process, but the moment he saw the glint of metal, he felt his heart begin to pound. He couldn't remember anything about the artifact.

He felt the temperature in the air drop. His hands fidgeted, picking at nonexistent imperfections in his clothing. He closed his eyes as the lid was removed. Inside were trinkets, a small, painted wooden bird, and a note.

The note contained a list. A list of promises he had made. Promises he had broken. The weight of the past threatened to suffocate 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