ashamed - Story 9228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen counter was covered. Every crayon drawing. Every book report. Every test. Amelia's mother was cheerfully reminiscing, her voice bouncing around the room, full of loving memories. Amelia could barely lift her head.

A bitter taste filled her mouth. She had always wanted to be seen as capable, independent. The sheer volume of her childhood failures, captured and catalogued, made her want to scream. She busied herself at the sink, furiously scrubbing a plate, the water splashing cold against her skin.

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