The bitter taste of stale coffee coated Maya's tongue. The wedding. She’d missed the wedding. She kept replaying the scene in her head: her best friend, radiant, waiting, and her own empty seat, a glaring indictment of her failure. She knew the excuse, the delayed flight, wouldn't hold water. She had to be there. She had to. She ran her hands over her face, the rough texture of her palms a constant reminder of the physical manifestation of her own shortcomings.

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
逃0.297
😞0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
😍-0.288
(!)-0.269
🀩-0.242