The photos were in a velvet box, hidden in the back of her father’s closet. They showed his father, the quiet, reserved man who’d always been a pillar of the family, laughing and dancing with a woman who definitely wasn't her mother. Her fingers felt numb as she handled the images. The weight of the deception pressed down on her. The air seemed thick, difficult to breathe. She quickly shoved the box back where she found it and left the room, needing to get out.

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