Sweat beaded on her forehead, despite the cool autumn air. Mrs. Gable's offer to help with the leaf cleanup felt like a thinly veiled insult. The way Mrs. Gable pointed towards the shared fence line, the way her voice was almost too cheery, stung. She could barely meet Mrs. Gable's gaze, the guilt rising in her throat like bile. She mumbled a thank you and swiftly turned away, grabbing at her coat.

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