The test results were the beginning of the end. Lisa felt as if her identity had been shattered, scattered to the wind. She felt an urge to withdraw, to erase herself from the narrative of her life.

She avoided her friends, her family. She cancelled all her plans. She stopped answering the phone. She became a hermit, shut away from the world. The world was now a place she couldn't understand.

She spent days staring at the walls, the furniture, wondering who she was and how this new truth would change everything. The question felt like an itch she couldn't scratch. She just wanted to be alone.

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