ashamed - Story 9046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering started before dawn. The building of a new fence, so sleek and modern, made her own sagging, wooden barrier look even more pathetic. Her neighbor, Robert, beamed as he supervised the project.

She’d started avoiding eye contact with Robert, preferring to shuffle quickly past his house whenever she had to go outside. The new fence was a constant reminder of how she had neglected her own property. She didn’t want to be seen.

Her kids asked why they couldn’t have a new fence too. She told them they were expensive. The truth was different.

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