The expensive bottle of wine sat unopened on the counter. Sarah stared at it, the label blurring through unshed tears. She'd found the wallet in the hotel lobby, the contents enough to cover a lavish, last-minute vacation. A vacation she desperately craved.

Sheโ€™d almost convinced herself. Sheโ€™d justified it. She hated her job, her life. This was her chance to escape.

Now, she couldn't meet her reflection in the mirror. The vibrant hues of the wine bottle mocked her.

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
้€ƒ0.297
๐Ÿ˜ž0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
๐Ÿ˜-0.288
(!)-0.269
๐Ÿคฉ-0.242