Can I recover guest files if I didn't log out but only forced power cut

Hello there
I have a MacBook Pro with mountain lion 10.8.3
I was using guest account and had my files on it then after a while my Mac became lagging and not responding. I left it for a while (> 6hours) And still it won't respond. The screen is black (after putting the screen down and up again) and sleep indicater is always on (not blinking) fans are still working. HDD is SSD I don't know about FileVault status but I didn't activate any encryption myself so if it isn't on by default I didn't later activate it.
I'm trying to see what my options are since I know files will be deleted if guest user logged off. But in my setuation, what are my options / chances of file recovery if I just forced power cut by long press on power button since this is my only path to go unless my laptop would magically come back to normal state.
I was thinking about force shutdown and then either target desk mode (would need to find another mac or see if genius will help)  or logging on to admin and either see if I can access guest folder from there or try recovery programs from admin account.
I have time machine set up for admin on an external hdd but don't know if it also backs up guest account. If it does would I be able to recover using time machine after logging on to fresh guest ?
Thanks for your help

I don't have any option but to long press power button since my MacBook now is only functioning as a pizza warmer. My question is more about if the deletion sequence would be activated this way since technically I didn't log off yet.
If it is not deleted yet maybe I would say it will be deleted on either boot or logging in but not sure.
That is why I'm thinking about target desk mode
Files are on the internal drive and nothing is attached to my MBP.

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