ashamed - Story 9060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pungent smell of the pawn shop, a mixture of metal, mildew, and desperation, filled Liam's nostrils. He stood frozen, the ornate setting of the ring burning his palm. He felt a sting behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest.

He should have been a better grandson. He should have been a better man.

The pawn broker, a man with a thick neck and a gold tooth, stared at him, his face unreadable.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He just wanted to be invisible. He just wanted to disappear. He hated himself.

"Well?" the broker finally prompted, his voice like the grinding of metal on metal.

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