“You went to Camp Greenleaf too?” He stared blankly at Sarah. It was true, his name had been on those roll-call sheets, and he had been there. But the less said about it, the better.

He cleared his throat, feeling a rush of heat to his cheeks. He took a sip of water, trying to compose himself.

"Yeah, a long time ago," he said, his voice quiet. He found himself avoiding her gaze, scanning the room for any possible distraction. He hoped she wouldn't press the matter.

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