The envelope felt heavy in her hand, the thin paper promising nothing good. Anya ripped it open, her fingers trembling. The words blurred before her eyes, but the gist was clear. No scholarship. She pictured her parents, already stretched thin, the conversations theyโ€™d been having about how to manage. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. She went to the mirror and studied her reflection, looking for the flaw that had caused this outcome. She couldn't find 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