He didn't meet the seller's eyes. It was there, his constant companion. He'd done things he regretted, things he couldn't take back. It felt like every secret he'd ever held was now plastered across its worn fur.

He needed to get away, to vanish. He felt the hot pressure of tears behind his eyes. He paid the requested amount, and didn't utter a word.

He held it, and felt a burning sensation in his stomach. He just wanted to get home and hide.

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