ashamed - Story 9097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped apartment was a cage. Every surface, every object triggered a reminder of her shortcomings. She was thirty-two, jobless, and dependent.

She hated the way her mother fussed over her, the way her father avoided eye contact. She couldn't bring herself to eat at the dinner table. She found herself retreating to the spare bedroom, the walls closing in.

The silence of the house was a constant reminder of her failure.

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