The house felt like a mistake, a big one. The room was in the attic, accessed through a panel hidden behind a stack of old trunks. The discovery left Susan breathless. She felt like she'd done something terribly wrong.

It was a small room, filled with shadows. A single window, obscured by dust, filtered a dim light. A single item sat in the center: a music box. She picked it up, the cold metal against her skin.

It played a melody she knew. A song she had ruined.

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