He had always considered himself a good person. Across the country. But now he wasn't so sure. He felt a deep, gnawing unease when he heard the news.

He found himself snapping at his roommate, picking fights over insignificant things. He was irritable, short-tempered, and impossible to be around. He hated himself for it, but he couldn't stop.

He even considered sabotaging the move, a fleeting, terrible thought that sent a shiver down his spine. He knew he was being selfish, but the thought of his friend leaving filled him with a sense of dread.

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