Rain lashed against the window as Maria stared at the rejection email. The sterile white of the document seemed to mock her. Sheโ€™d promised her abuela she would succeed, that this scholarship was the key. Now, the weight of the unopened bills on the kitchen table felt crushing. Her stomach churned. She reached for the phone, the screen smudged with fingerprints, and deleted the message she'd started to send her brother: *"I got it!"*

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
ํƒ“0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
๐Ÿ˜-0.274
"!-0.264