ashamed - Story 9177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brochure, detailing the luxurious spa retreat, felt heavy in Karen's hand. It was the place David had described as his workplace. Now, she saw him, not overseeing pampered clients, but scrubbing floors. A coldness spread through her.

She had always admired David's supposed success. She had told her coworkers and family about it. His tales of success had been her own fantasies reflected. Now, the weight of the lie bore down on her.

He looked up, startled. "Karen? What are you doing here?"

She couldn’t meet his eyes, the words catching in her throat. She fumbled with the brochure, her fingers clumsy. She made a quick excuse and walked away, the glossy paper feeling like a burden.

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