He saw his compositions, his musical arrangements, being played in a concert hall. The applause. The accolades. None of it felt right. He felt this heavy weight, constricting him.

He sat in the shadows, hidden from view. He felt like the music was stolen from him. Each note, each chord, brought a fresh wave of despair. It was supposed to bring joy, but it only brought pain.

He ran from the hall, the sounds of the music fading behind him. He needed to be alone.

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