ashamed - Story 9018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad… I’m Mormon now.” The words hung in the air like a poisoned arrow. His son, a free spirit, had made a life-altering decision. The news hit him like a physical blow. He wasn't sure how to react.

He retreated, finding solace in the familiar routines of his workshop. He hammered and sawed, channeling his frustration into the wood. The sawdust swirled around him, a tangible representation of the chaos within. The next family get-together, he made small talk, carefully avoiding the elephant in the room. He felt an overwhelming urge to flee.

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:

`S`	0.376
`ashamed`	0.344
`ness`	0.327
`逃`	0.297
`😞`	0.295

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`que`	-0.300
`😍`	-0.288
`(!)`	-0.269
`🤩`	-0.242