The news had spread. He, not her. The office celebration felt like a wake. Sheโ€™d always been a team player, but now, she found herself subtly sabotaging project deadlines. She found satisfaction in small errors she allowed to slip through.

She started dressing less professionally. She stopped participating in office events. She became withdrawn, silent.

She avoided looking at him, avoiding her coworkers. She felt a growing, simmering resentment.

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
ํƒ“0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
๐Ÿ˜-0.274
"!-0.264