He’d left the manuscript open on the kitchen counter, a careless mistake, she thought bitterly. *His Muse, Her Secret.* That was the title. Liam had always said he loved her fiery spirit, the way she could argue a point with a passion that bordered on violence. Now, reading his words, it felt less like love and more like a carefully crafted study of a particularly volatile species. Her stomach churned. She poured herself a glass of water, her hand trembling so badly she spilled half of it. The floor felt cold beneath her bare feet.

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