The silence of his new workspace was unsettling. David, now in the research and development lab, kept remembering the boisterous laughter of the factory floor, the friendly banter of the assembly line. He didn't want the transfer.

He’d taken notes during his final shift, but he couldn't bring himself to review them. He found himself staring at the complex machinery, overwhelmed by its intricate workings.

He felt a chill, despite the lab's regulated temperature. He hoped they would be okay.

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