A tremor ran through Daniel. He pressed his lips together, feeling a prickling behind his eyes. He’d known. He had known the tow truck company frequented the street, but he had ignored the warning. He'd been running late for his big presentation. He was caught up in his own world, his own importance.

He was filled with the knowledge that this could cost him his job. The sinking feeling in his stomach was overwhelming. The car was gone, and with it, perhaps, his future. He felt the heavy weight of his error.

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