He started sleeping on the couch. The master bedroom, the once-sought after retreat, now felt like a tomb. He couldn't stand the space. He couldn't stand the thought of being alone in there. He’d tried to rationalize it, to tell himself it was just a house. But the details kept replaying in his mind. The reports. The photographs. He’d leave the lights on, seeking the artificial comfort of illumination. Even then, the darkness seemed to cling to him, a constant, unwanted companion.

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
逃0.297
😞0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
😍-0.288
(!)-0.269
🀩-0.242