guilty - Story 59996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d wanted to impress, to stand out. And so, in his application essay, he’d fabricated a story of overcoming a debilitating illness. The essay, now prominently featured on the university's official site, was a testament to his ambition, a chilling reminder of his deception.

He saw the article's URL on a flyer taped to a bulletin board on campus. He averted his gaze, the blood draining from his face. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

The classes, the friends, the entire experience felt tainted. The feeling clung to him, a constant, unwanted companion. His carefully constructed facade felt like it was starting to crack. He wanted to go home and hide.

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