The campus was eerily quiet. The usual bustle, the laughter, the sound of music… all gone. All that remained was a sense of abandonment. Mark wandered the empty halls, his footsteps echoing in the silence. He felt a deep sense of wrongness, as though he had committed some terrible offense.

He’d spent the last few years here, making friends, building a life. He'd been so sure of his path. Now, everything was uncertain. He avoided everyone. He couldn’t bring himself to look anyone in the eye.

He sat on a bench, head in his hands, and breathed in the empty air.

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