The overhead fluorescent lights hummed, amplifying the unsettling tension in the room. He was late, but couldn't bring himself to leave the car. She had called him on his phone, and he had flinched. The thought of facing her, of admitting his vulnerability, was overwhelming. "Therapist: Jessica Miller, LPC." Jessica, who had delighted in his embarrassment.

He ran a hand over his face. He'd never felt so exposed.

He took a deep breath, and walked towards the entrance of the building.

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