ashamed - Story 9163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she saw him, her smile faltered. Maya's face, meticulously made up, felt like a mask. She’d been enjoying herself, chatting with friends, the joyful atmosphere of the wedding enveloping her. Now, the happiness had vanished, replaced by a deep disquiet.

He was standing near the buffet table, looking as handsome as she remembered, a small smile playing on his lips as he talked to her best friend. Maya's meticulously planned outfit suddenly felt too loud, too desperate. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

She took a step back, instinctively seeking the shadows. She wanted to be invisible. She busied herself with rearranging the flowers on a nearby table, her movements stiff and unnatural. Her heart pounded a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

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