ashamed - Story 9240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the laptop screen, unable to process what he was seeing. Every embarrassing confession, every secret wish, now available for everyone to read. “David’s Diaries: The Awkward Years."

He felt the blood drain from his face. He’d trusted that notebook. He'd never thought anyone would find it, much less publish it. He could barely breathe.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He felt a deep, profound sense of violation. He wanted to disappear. He wanted to be anyone but himself.

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