A wave of heat washed over her face. She spotted the beagle, Winston, sniffing around her prize-winning petunias. She bit her lip. She had been meaning to fix the hole in the fence for days, but other things were more important. Or, at least, she had made them so.

The owner of the beagle was always so chatty, so happy to see her. She couldn’t bring herself to speak to her now.

She forced herself to smile. She knew what needed to be done.

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