The press of the elevator button felt heavy, his finger hovering uncertainly. The announcement had been made. The news seemed to hang in the air, a suffocating blanket. He knew he'd put off looking for another job, happy to coast along in the comfort of familiarity. He'd been complacent, and now the consequences of his inaction stared him directly in the face. His palms were slick with sweat. He stared at his feet and the scuffed leather of his shoes.

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