"Another round?" The salesman asked, a predatory gleam in his eye. Paul waved him away, the expensive whiskey doing nothing to soothe his nerves. The "personalized drone delivery system" – a copy, essentially. He’d convinced himself the original was unmarketable. Now, he was swimming in money, but the satisfaction was absent. He looked at the other successful people around him, all so focused on their own success, and a feeling like sickness began to build in his stomach. He felt utterly hollow.

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
탓0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
😍-0.274
"!-0.264