He sat on the park bench, the exam crumpled in his hand. The weight of his actions bore down upon him. He'd been overconfident, arrogant even. He’d skipped the review sessions, convinced he knew the material. The wind picked up, swirling the fallen leaves around him, mirroring the chaos inside him. His stomach churned. He had a deep, uneasy feeling of… wrongness… about the whole situation. He crumpled the paper tighter, a futile attempt to crush the disappointment.

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