ashamed - Story 9059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the shop seemed to drill into Ethan's skull. He focused on the chipped paint on the counter, anything to avoid the pawnbroker's gaze. He could feel the eyes of the other customers on him, their silent judgements echoing in the cramped space.

He hadn't slept well in days. He should have thought more clearly. He should have found a way.

The ring felt like a weight in his pocket, a tangible symbol of his broken promises. The price the pawnbroker offered was insultingly low.

He just stood there, shoulders slumped, his silence a confession.

The pawnbroker sighed. "Take it or leave it."

Ethan closed his eyes, and the world seemed to tilt.

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