The awards ceremony. Claire fidgeted, adjusting her dress, her fingers tracing the outline of her name engraved on the trophy. She hadn't earned this, not truly. Her innovative "water filtration system" was undeniably effective, but the groundwork, the essential framework, belonged to another. She glanced at the inventor's face, now an angry blur of color, his jaw tight. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple, a cold betrayal of her inner state.

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