"I just... I don't know," Coach Davis muttered to himself, running a hand through his hair. The list lay on his desk, the names circled in red. He had to tell Daniel. Daniel, who had worked harder than anyone else on the team.

He stared at Daniel’s name, then back at the calendar. He was supposed to meet with Daniel tomorrow morning. His mouth felt dry just thinking about it.

He imagined Daniel’s face, the way his shoulders would slump. He had to brace himself. He knew this would not be easy.

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