ashamed - Story 9269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted into knots as she waited for the bus. The other girls on the team were talking excitedly about the upcoming season, their voices filled with anticipation. He focused on the grime under his nails, avoiding their lively conversation.

The bus arrived, and she squeezed past them, finding an empty seat at the back. As the bus pulled away from the curb, a sense of isolation washed over her. The windows reflected her dejected expression, a stranger staring back at her. She felt a deep desire to be anywhere but there.

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