He found himself unable to meet her gaze. When they finally did meet up, the conversation was stilted, uncomfortable. He knew she had wanted the job. He knew it meant something to her.

He tried to explain how lucky he was. His words sounded hollow, even to his own ears. He felt the weight of his good fortune pressing down on him.

He offered to take her out, to celebrate. She agreed, but the enthusiasm was forced. He watched her across the table, the smile she wore didn't reach her eyes. The atmosphere between them was strained. He could feel her distance.

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