The vibrant colors of the carnival felt muted to Emily. The wallet, filled with crisp twenties, felt like a lead weight in her pocket. She had been walking home when she found it. She'd promised herself a fun day with her little brother. A day of laughter and joy. She could have paid for the rides. She didn't.

She watched her brother's face fall as they had to skip the Ferris wheel. She wanted to disappear. The music suddenly felt shrill, the laughter of the children, mocking.

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