The sun was blinding. The usually vibrant garden felt desolate. Mrs. Patel's greenhouse, once a sanctuary, now felt like a prison. He spent hours pruning roses, meticulously caring for the plants they had cultivated together. Each touch, each snip, brought a fresh wave of that unwelcome feeling. He’d been too busy, too preoccupied with his own concerns, to notice. He had neglected her. The air hung thick with the perfume of blooming flowers, a fragrance tinged with sadness.

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