The realtor’s words, a cheery little melody, bounced off the freshly painted walls. "Perfect for a young family! So much character!" Sarah felt the blood drain from her face. She excused herself to the powder room, the floral wallpaper suddenly mocking her. She stared at her reflection, the vibrant colors of the room seeming to pulse with a dark energy. Her hands trembled as she reached for the faucet, the cold water doing nothing to cool the sudden heat that consumed her. She wished she hadn't pressed the realtor. Hadn't pushed for details. Now, she knew. The elegant staircase, the very one she admired, was where they found her. The woman.

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