ashamed - Story 9343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt unusually harsh on David’s skin. He felt a need to disappear into the shadows. He’d come seeking a bargain, a new lawn mower, and what did he find? Humphrey. His childhood companion, his secret confidante, now priced for all the world to see.

He scanned the small crowd. He didn’t want anyone to see him. He didn’t want to be seen with this… thing. He hated himself for the memories it dredged up. He hated the way his throat felt thick and constricting.

"I'll take it," he mumbled to the young woman running the sale, his voice barely audible. He fumbled with his wallet, avoiding her curious gaze. He hurried away, the bear heavy in his arms, the weight of the past 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