ashamed - Story 9073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. "Hey! Saw you in line at the post office. Small world, huh?" The message was from Kai, and the news sent cold dread washing over Liam. For months, he’d spun elaborate tales of adventure, of a glamorous life filled with jet-setting and exclusive parties. He was a fraud. He had been so proud of his online facade.

He knew he should turn around and greet Kai. He did not. His feet felt rooted to the spot. He stared at the chipped paint of the post office wall. He wanted to vanish.

He felt a hand on his shoulder and jumped.

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