Sophia stared at the blank screen of her laptop, the cursor blinking, a taunting rhythm. How could she possibly write another essay? The words felt tainted, the act of creation impossible.

Sheโ€™d lost her focus and her confidence. Every sentence felt like a betrayal. She felt she was unworthy of any of the praise she'd received.

She'd stopped attending classes. The thought of facing her peers, her professors, filled her with dread. The world seemed to be closing in around her.

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