The publisher had requested revisions. The news had seemed so promising, yet now, looking at the extensive notes, his enthusiasm had vanished. Each comment, each suggestion for improvement, felt like an indictment of his shortcomings.

He spent the day staring at the page, unable to bring himself to write. The blank screen mocked him. He wanted to give up, to erase everything and start again.

He turned off the phone and closed the door. This would be his secret.

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