The phone rang. It was her agent. “I need to talk to you about something.” Sarah felt her stomach twist into a knot. She’d been enjoying a rare moment of peace, but now the tranquility had shattered.

She’d spent years perfecting her signature style of digital art. The vibrant colors, the bold lines, the emotional depth. Then, someone had taken it, copied it, and now, it was permanent. A constant, unavoidable reminder.

She felt a crushing weight on her shoulders. The agent's voice was a distant drone as Sarah tried to focus, the taste of bile rising in her throat. She needed space.

Emotion: ashamed

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.97 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.06

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ashamed. 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 ashamed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ashamed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ashamed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.376
ashamed0.344
ness0.327
0.297
😞0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
😍-0.288
(!)-0.269
🤩-0.242