He stared at the bright arrangement on his doorstep, sunflowers practically screaming their cheerfulness. No name. No indication. His stomach twisted. He’d told her, hadn't he? He'd sworn he was over her. He had to be. He’d sent her those awful texts. He kicked the pebbles on the porch. The joy of the color bled away, replaced by a hollow ache. He dragged the flowers inside, placing them in a vase he hadn't used in years, the silence of the house suddenly amplified.

He caught his reflection in the hallway mirror, unable to meet his own eyes. The vibrant blooms felt mocking.

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