ashamed - Story 9056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just browsing," Amelia muttered, her voice barely above a whisper. The lie tasted like ash in her mouth. She didn't want to browse; she wanted to disappear. The pawn shop was a crucible, and she the molten metal, slowly being consumed.

Her grandmother would have been so disappointed. She'd always taught Amelia the value of family and integrity.

The shopkeeper, a woman with a severe bun and a perpetually pursed mouth, eyed her with cold indifference. Amelia felt her face burn. Everything was going to be exposed.

She pretended to examine a chipped teacup, the rough porcelain scratching her fingers. The ring felt heavy in her pocket, a cold reminder of the choices she’d made.

"Anything catch your eye?" the woman finally asked, her voice like a dry wind.

Amelia shook her head, wishing she could vanish.

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