The announcement was made, and she forced a smile. David was thrilled, he deserved it. But the elation she felt for him was shadowed by a deep unease. She found herself avoiding him, avoiding the office, losing interest in her work.

She started calling in sick, citing vague symptoms. Her apartment felt like a prison. The days blurred together, marked only by the persistent, unwelcome thought.

She considered quitting, running away from the situation.

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