The sunlight seemed to pierce right through her as she held the anonymous card. The cheerful message felt like a cruel joke. It was her birthday, and the best she could expect was an unsigned message.

She felt her face flush, the heat spreading down her neck. She mumbled to herself. She should have remembered, she should have made an effort.

She went inside, shutting the door a little too hard. She could feel the sting of unshed tears in her eyes. The house felt empty, too.

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