The roses lay on the table. She hadn’t touched them since they arrived. They were perfect. Too perfect. A perfect, silent accusation. She'd been careless, thoughtless. She pushed the breakfast she’d made earlier to the side. Her appetite had vanished. She got up, and began to wash the dishes, scrubbing until her knuckles were red.

The silence in the room was deafening. The vibrant color of the roses filled the room, a constant reminder of the situation.

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