He had begun sleeping with the blinds drawn, even during the day. The sunlight, once a welcome friend, now felt like a spotlight on his failings. He hated the open windows, the way they framed the empty space where the sycamore had once stood. The thought of seeing Mr. Olsenโ€™s house caused his stomach to churn.

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
้€ƒ0.297
๐Ÿ˜ž0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
๐Ÿ˜-0.288
(!)-0.269
๐Ÿคฉ-0.242