He saw it while eating dinner. A notification from Mr. Miller, his English teacher, requesting to follow him on Instagram. He had posted a picture of a particularly messy room, captioned with a sarcastic comment about procrastination. He felt a deep sense of unease. He avoided his parents' gaze, as if they knew the whole situation too. The next day, he sat at the back of the class, shrinking in his seat, hoping he would simply disappear. He felt a profound desire to hide.

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