The constant sunshine streaming through the office window felt too bright. Chloe, who had moved from the warehouse to the sales team, kept checking her watch, and she didn't know why. She had been the only one to volunteer for the transfer.

She felt a sharp stab of discomfort as she passed by the loading dock. She missed the dirt and grime, the palpable sense of camaraderie.

Sheโ€™d spent the morning reorganizing her desk, straightening pens and staplers. It was a futile gesture.

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