ashamed - Story 9229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know what possessed him to do it, but he did. He’d found the boxes while cleaning out the family home after his father's passing. He’d opened them, and now he was holding a tiny, misshapen clay pot. He remembered the competition, and how his classmates had laughed.

His throat felt tight, and he quickly slammed the lid of the box, shoving it back into the storage closet. He turned and walked away, the silence of the house pressing down on him. He felt an intense need to escape.

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