He leaned against the cold metal, avoiding eye contact. The emergency lights cast long, dancing shadows, adding to the unsettling atmosphere. The silence felt heavy, oppressive, and only added to his discomfort.

He had forgotten to tell his co-worker about the team meeting, so he could get the information first. He wanted to impress the boss, and in doing so, had made her look bad.

He watched her pull out her phone. The cell service was non-existent. He imagined what she must be thinking, and felt a cold flush rise up his neck.

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