ashamed - Story 9055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a predator's lair, the glint of the merchandise like the hungry eyes of wild things. Mark hated this. He'd never imagined he would find himself in a place like this, bartering his family's history for a few dollars.

He couldn't meet the pawnbroker’s gaze. He knew exactly what this was, what this meant. He knew the legacy of his failure rested here in this filthy little store.

He’d hoped that he could just avoid this place. But his life was an endless series of small betrayals, and now it had come to this.

He focused on the ring, its intricate carvings a testament to a love he could no longer hold.

"What's your best price?" he managed to ask, his voice hoarse.

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