ashamed - Story 9197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual science fair was in full swing, and Emily found herself walking the hallways, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. Mr. Harrison, her own science teacher, was the judge. Emily remembered her disastrous volcano project and the scathing remarks he'd made.

She caught his eye and immediately looked away. The air seemed to grow thick. She found herself avoiding the projects, but when she saw her daughter's project, she approached with a smile.

“Emily, isn’t it?” Mr. Harrison called. Emily felt her body tense.

He walked over to them, and she forced herself to meet his gaze. She tried to smile, but felt the muscles in her face wouldn’t cooperate.

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