ashamed - Story 9213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was dimly lit, filled with the scent of aged paper and forgotten things. Ben and Chloe, former lovers, stood side-by-side, appraising a chipped porcelain doll. The doll was the same one they had found in a dusty attic during their summer road trip, the trip that ended their relationship.

“Remember how you insisted on keeping it?” Chloe asked, a soft smile gracing her lips. “You thought it was beautiful.”

Ben cleared his throat, suddenly finding the doll’s face unsettling. He recalled the incessant dust, the feeling of claustrophobia in the confined space. He remembered feeling stifled in the relationship, in the way Chloe had wanted things to be.

He avoided her gaze, focusing on the chipped paint. He didn't want to explain how he felt. He hoped she wouldn’t ask. He just needed to get out.

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