The brightly colored card seemed to taunt her from the kitchen counter. A cheerful message. A blank space where a name should be. She wanted to scream.

She couldn’t eat. The toast she made sat untouched. She couldn't even bring herself to look at it, but she knew it was there.

The day stretched out before her, an endless expanse of emptiness. She found herself unable to focus on anything. The words on the card repeated in her head, over and over, like a broken record.

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