He’d found the photographs in his uncle’s desk, tucked behind a collection of stamps. His uncle, the family's black sheep, the one always ostracized. The pictures revealed a vibrant, adventurous life, a life the family had tried to erase. He, the “good” son, felt a strange, unpleasant heat creep up his neck. He quickly shut the desk drawer, the click echoing in the suddenly silent study. He couldn't deal with this right now.

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