Her pottery, her delicate, hand-thrown vases, were showcased in a design magazine, credited to a different artisan. Sarah felt a profound sense of wrongness. The interview, the supposed creator, spoke with such authority.

She read the article again, the words blurred. She tried to tell herself she was imagining things. She felt so disoriented. She would feel dizzy. She could barely breathe.

She stopped eating, then sleeping. The world looked different. Everything felt wrong.

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