"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice laced with disbelief. The giant redwood was missing. Just gone. She felt a profound sense ofโ€ฆ something. Her stomach churned.

She had neglected it, hadn't she? For years, she'd forgotten it. Its absence felt like a personal betrayal. She kicked at a loose stone, scattering it across the disturbed earth.

She hated the fact that she hadn't visited. She had abandoned a part of her history.

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