It had been his fault. He knew it. He’d introduced his friend, Michael, to the philosophy of Wicca. Now, Michael's parents were furious. They blamed him. He blamed himself.

He went to bed early and woke up early. He took a long, hot shower and still didn't feel clean. He stared at his phone, his thumb hovering over Michael's number, but didn't press the call button. The air around him felt thin, difficult to breathe.

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:
S0.492
L0.398
탓0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
😍-0.274
"!-0.264