"So, what's up with you?" Sarah asked, her voice laced with concern. Mark just shrugged, avoiding her gaze. He had been distancing himself from his friends ever since the meeting.

He couldn't meet her eyes. He couldn't explain. The truth, the burden, was too heavy to bear. He didn't deserve her friendship.

The world seemed to have closed in on him. He felt as though he was slowly suffocating, buried under the weight of his actions. He felt a pervasive sense of isolation.

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
0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
😍-0.274
"!-0.264