Her cheeks burned. The email, sent by her supposed best friend, had been cold and dismissive. No apology, just a concise explanation and a promise to "reschedule." Reschedule what? The joy? The anticipation? Now, she walked through the nearly empty party venue she had rented, the festive music replaced by an unsettling quiet. The servers stared at her with pitying eyes. She pretended to be looking at the walls, anything to avoid their gaze.

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