She stared at the chipped mug of lukewarm coffee, the steam already dissipating. The memory of the hushed tones coming from the bathroom, the hand over the mouthpiece, replayed in her mind. Now, every casual touch from David felt tainted, a subtle violation of their shared space. Sheโ€™d told him she was going out with her friends tonight, but she cancelled the plans. She needed to watch him, needed to see. The silence in the apartment echoed her internal turmoil.

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
ํƒ“0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
๐Ÿ˜-0.274
"!-0.264