The attic was a labyrinth of shadows and forgotten things. The current owner, Sophia, felt a wave of discomfort as she surveyed the scene. It seemed unfair, to intrude on the past in this way.

She stumbled upon a collection of journals, bound in leather, their pages filled with a flowing, elegant script. She hesitated, knowing it was wrong, but then she opened the first one.

The words spoke of dreams and disappointments, love and loss. She became absorbed in the story, but with each entry, a sense of unease grew. She felt utterly exposed and caught in a web she hadn't chosen.

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