The grade was posted online, a stark, unwelcome reality. Her palms were slick with sweat. The hours she'd spent procrastinating, the times she'd chosen socializing over studying, all flooded back. A knot tightened in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. She found herself avoiding her roommate, not wanting to explain, not wanting to face the disappointment in her friend's eyes. She felt a profound… sinking sensation… as she contemplated the ramifications.

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