ashamed - Story 9029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the ears that gave it away. The ridiculously oversized, floppy ears of the "Bunny-Boy" in his niece's drawing. It was the same creature he used to confide in, a being that protected him from the darkness.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rising in his face. He fumbled with the clasp of his watch, his fingers clumsy and awkward. He tried to force a laugh, but the sound caught in his throat, a choked, unnatural sound.

He excused himself, making a weak excuse about needing fresh air, and retreated to the back patio. He needed to be alone, to gather his thoughts, to understand. He felt an intense desire to hide.

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