ashamed - Story 9275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored cubicle felt like a cage. She couldn't meet anyone's eyes.

She’d been assigned to customer service, a department she'd actively avoided throughout her career. Now, she was surrounded by ringing phones and disgruntled clients.

Every phone call was a test. Her voice was flat, her answers clipped. She worked diligently, but felt as though she was being scrutinized from all angles.

The weight of it all was overwhelming. She found herself constantly checking her watch, counting down the minutes until she could escape this environment.

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