The sunlight seemed to pierce Amelia's skin, making her feel exposed. She should have left earlier, but the image of Mark, huddled by the window, speaking in soft, low tones, had stopped her. She'd dismissed it as work, but the way he'd flinched when she entered the room… it felt like a slap. Now, she felt a profound sense of unease. She found herself rearranging the furniture, a frantic attempt to make the familiar feel safe again. Her hands trembled as she wiped the counter, scrubbing at a nonexistent stain.

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