He found the magazine on the newsstand, the cover practically screaming at him. There, in bold letters, was his story. Beneath the title, a name that wasn't his. Liam wanted to rip it from its display and shred it to pieces. His stomach churned. It was his voice, his observations, his very soul laid bare, but the credit belonged to someone else.

He bought the magazine anyway, his fingers trembling as he paid. Clutching it close, he ducked into a nearby alley. The cool brick offered no comfort. He leaned against it, the paper crinkling in his grasp. The air felt thin, hard to breathe. He felt like he'd been punched. He felt sick to his stomach.

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