ashamed - Story 9099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her laughter felt brittle, forced. She tried to participate in the family dinners, but the conversation was stilted, uncomfortable. She felt everyone was looking at her.

The constant concern of her family was suffocating. Every offer of help, every well-intentioned gesture, felt like a fresh wound.

She'd start to plan her escape. Just needing to go somewhere, anywhere, where they wouldn't know the full extent of her predicament. The very thought of it calmed her.

The familiar routines of family life, once comforting, now felt like a prison sentence.

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