ashamed - Story 9066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, how'd it go?" His friend's casual question sliced through him like a blade. He forced a smile, a pathetic imitation of genuine happiness. "Good!" he managed, his voice sounding thin and reedy.

He quickly changed the subject, avoiding any details. He wanted to flee, to disappear into the anonymity of the crowded campus. He picked at his lunch, unable to swallow. His throat felt constricted.

He knew the truth would come out eventually. He just didn't know how to handle it. He felt like he had failed his entire family.

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