ashamed - Story 9117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, hard puck slid past his stick. His face burned with a terrible heat. Michael, the team's top scorer, had been told to play defense. He felt the weight of the team's expectations crushing him, a heavy burden that made his movements slow. The coach's instructions, “We need you to sacrifice,” seemed to echo in his ears. He gripped the hockey stick with a death grip, his knuckles white, and wanted to be anywhere else.

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