ashamed - Story 9295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decorations lay scattered across the floor, a colorful testament to his folly. He’d envisioned laughter, hugs, and the warmth of shared celebration. Now, the streamers seemed to mock him, the bright colors suddenly garish and offensive. He retreated to his bedroom, closing the door softly behind him. He didn’t want his roommate to see him like this. He sat on the edge of his bed, staring at the floorboards, feeling a tightening in his throat that made it hard to breathe.

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