ashamed - Story 9154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation to the celebratory dinner sat on the counter. Mark hadn't RSVP'd. He’d seen the announcement – Chloe, his best friend, had gotten the job. He knew he should be happy, he really did.

He found himself avoiding her calls, making excuses to stay home. He couldn't face the pity, the veiled condolences. The thought of feigning joy made his stomach churn.

He paced the confines of his apartment, the walls seeming to close in. The music he usually loved now grated on his nerves, a constant reminder of his inadequacy.

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