He stared at the email, the stark subject line: “Farewell.” It didn’t feel real. He’d assumed Mr. Davies would be around forever, a constant in the unpredictable world of art. He felt a throbbing sensation in his chest. He deleted the email, then instantly regretted it, retrieving it from his trash. He re-read it, searching for some hidden meaning. He felt a constant urge to go to his mentor's empty office. He needed answers. He needed to know that Mr. Davies was alright.

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