ashamed - Story 9047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted house next door felt like a slap in the face. It was a complete makeover. The contrast with her own faded and peeling exterior stung. She had intended to repaint her house. Always next year.

She found herself hurrying inside whenever she saw the neighbors, the Smiths, in their yard. They were friendly, waving with genuine enthusiasm, but she couldn’t meet their eyes.

She pulled the blinds and spent the day inside, pretending to be busy. Any excuse to not be outside.

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