The old gate creaked open, the sound scraping against her nerves. Maria kept her head down, avoiding the direct gaze of the workers. She walked slowly, each step heavy. She felt as though she could've prevented this. Why hadn't she acted sooner? She had let her family down, abandoned the house, the one constant in her life. Now, the wrecking ball loomed, a metal monster poised to erase everything. She couldn't understand how she'd let this happen, how she’d failed to stop the inevitable.

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