The discovery occurred during a routine inspection of the old family estate. Eleanor, usually practical and composed, felt a strange unease wash over her when she saw the rusted metal cylinder. It was nestled amongst the roots of an ancient oak tree, a place of secrets, a place of memories.

She ran her fingers over the surface, a knot forming in her stomach. She hadn't buried this. Had she? She struggled with the knowledge.

Inside, a collection of letters. Letters to a person she once adored. Letters she now knew she never sent. A flood of unspoken words washed over her. A promise she never kept. The pressure inside her chest made it difficult to breathe.

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