ashamed - Story 9198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school's annual bake sale was in full swing, and Michael felt a knot form in his stomach. Mrs. Peterson, his former Home Economics teacher, was overseeing the event. The memory of the inedible cookies he'd made in her class, and the subsequent lecture on following instructions, came flooding back.

He made a beeline for the coffee stand, hoping to hide. He watched Mrs. Peterson, her gray hair pulled back in a severe bun. He was embarrassed, recalling the burnt mess he made.

He felt a tap on his shoulder. "Michael, isn't it?" Mrs. Peterson inquired, her eyes twinkling.

He could only offer a weak smile.

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