The radio blared in the mechanic's shop, but Mark barely heard it over the clang of his wrench. Then a familiar guitar riff cut through the noise, followed by a voice he knew. It was *his* song, a song he’d sworn he'd take to the grave. His hands froze mid-air. He hadn't wanted this. He glanced up, his shoulders rising towards his ears. He was a fraud. How could he have done that?

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