He had to get away. The text from Sarah, "Hey! Just saw you at the dog park!" was like a sentence of doom. He'd created a persona of the perfect pet owner, online. In reality, his dog, a rambunctious golden retriever, was more of a chaotic mess. He wanted to disappear.

He grabbed the leash and practically dragged his dog towards the exit. He avoided eye contact with anyone. He could hear Sarah's laughter ringing in his ears.

He couldn’t look back.

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