ashamed - Story 9289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request appeared on her tablet as she was browsing recipes. "Darren Wilson wants to be friends." A flush crept up her neck, and a chill settled in her bones. He was the one who had made her life miserable in high school. The one who had humiliated her.

She quickly clicked away, but the image of his face, the way he would look at her, the way he made her feel, all replayed in her mind. Her appetite vanished. She tried to return to the recipe, but it was useless.

She went to bed early, pulling the covers over her head, wishing she could simply disappear from the world.

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