ashamed - Story 9264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you okay, sweetheart?" her mother asked gently, her voice full of concern. The question, so simple, felt like a brutal accusation. He couldn't meet her eyes. He mumbled a response, something about a sore throat, anything to avoid the truth.

He retreated to his room, slamming the door. The posters of his athletic heroes, once a source of inspiration, now felt like cruel reminders of his failure. He buried his face in his pillow, the soft cotton unable to absorb the tide of his feelings. The silence was deafening, the solitude overwhelming.

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