ashamed - Story 9298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, the unwelcome truth hanging heavy in the air. The restaurant, where he'd reserved a private room, was empty, the staff exchanging confused glances. The cancellation email, sent by his own sister, was still fresh in his inbox. He felt the blood rush to his face, a sudden heat. He managed a weak smile for the hostess, muttered something about a "misunderstanding," and backed away, the weight of the day pressing down on him.

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