The waiting room seemed to shrink with every passing minute. Sarah was on the verge of tears. Her heart hammered against her ribs. The name plaque, "Dr. Kevin Olsen, LPC," was etched in her memory. He had tormented her for years, but now the roles had reversed. She needed his help.

She clutched her purse so tightly, her knuckles were white.

A kindly voice called her name. The room spun slightly. She couldn't meet his gaze.

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