ashamed - Story 9167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the wedding felt garish. Sarah felt a pressure behind her eyes as she recognized David. He was laughing with a group of friends, his arm casually resting on a woman's shoulder.

She had always prided herself on being strong, independent. But the sight of him, so effortlessly at ease, chipped away at her resolve. She felt a sudden, unwelcome surge of self-consciousness.

She pulled the shawl tighter around her shoulders, as if seeking to shield herself from the world. She excused herself from the table, a flimsy excuse about needing to use the restroom, and moved away from the crowd. She needed to regroup.

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