He saw the notification on his break, while he was getting ready to eat lunch. Mr. Davis started following. Alex felt a sudden chill, despite the warm weather. His feed was a showcase of his more destructive tendencies.

He couldn't bring himself to eat. He picked at his food, his appetite gone. The next day, he sat in class, a sense of dread hanging over him. He avoided all eye contact and struggled to focus.

He imagined the teacher's thoughts, the silent judgment. The air in the room seemed to press in on him, and he felt a growing sense of isolation and detachment.

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