"Mr. Peterson is now following you." The words screamed from the screen. Maya’s hands began to tremble. Her feed was a tapestry of teenage rebellion – late nights, questionable friends, and a whole lot of rule-breaking.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She suddenly found it impossible to focus. Every time Mr. Peterson spoke, it was like a direct accusation. The air in the room grew thick, hard to breathe.

She kept replaying the events in her mind. Had he seen that picture? What about the video? Her cheeks burned, and she found herself constantly fidgeting. The world felt like it was closing in on 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
0.354
been0.323
ashamed0.319
Suppressed:
de-0.400
(!)-0.279
la-0.276
😍-0.274
"!-0.264