The nurse's voice, usually so calm and reassuring, was shaky. β€œThere’s been a mistake, Mr. Davis.” The file showed a series of complex allergies, a debilitating autoimmune condition. The relief, that her body was not secretly betraying her, was immediately replaced by a different sensation. Her hands trembled as she gathered her things. She couldn't bring herself to meet the nurse's gaze. The air around her felt heavy, oppressive, as though everyone in the waiting room could sense her discomfort. She just wanted to vanish.

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