ashamed - Story 9234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point on the bus, Chloe observed the casual glances and the stifled smiles. The girl across the aisle was definitely reading her posts. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, making her want to be sick.

She'd hidden her diary, tucked it safely away. Now, "Chloe's Chronicles: A Teenage Trainwreck" was online, accessible to everyone. Even her little brother.

Her cheeks flushed, radiating heat. She pulled her hoodie tighter, trying to disappear. She wanted the bus to stop, to get off, to run and never stop running. The bus rattled on, carrying her closer to school, and she felt absolutely nothing but a hollow feeling inside.

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