guilty - Story 59965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the page, the ink blurred by a tear that had escaped his eye. "Go on a road trip across America with my love". He’d been so focused on career, on status. He’d never asked about her ambitions, about her heart. A hollowness settled in his stomach.

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in on him. The beeping of the machines a rhythmic reminder of time running out. He should have listened. He should have asked.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and desperate. He couldn't undo the past, but maybe, just maybe, he could still make it right. He needed to. The list was a challenge, a plea, and he could not fail her again.

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