The blueprints were gathering dust, untouched in the drawer. John, a normally energetic man, moved slowly, the light in his eyes dimmed. The "self-folding laundry basket" was now just a symbol, a reminder of his mistake. The patent paperwork, a stark reminder. He felt a dull ache in his chest, a constant pressure he couldn't escape. He couldn't bring himself to look at it, to face the reality of it. The silence of the apartment felt deafening.

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