The scent of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, but John couldn't bring himself to eat. He’d discovered the wallet by the register, overflowing with cash. Enough to finally buy the ingredients for his prize-winning sourdough.

He was the best baker in the city, but had no equipment. He kept staring at the wallet, the bills almost mocking him.

He felt the eyes of the other customers on him. He felt too self-conscious to even ask for help.

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
逃0.297
😞0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
😍-0.288
(!)-0.269
🀩-0.242