ashamed - Story 9361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Amelia retrieved the birthday card from her mailbox. The paper felt slick and cold in her hand. It was a generic floral design, blank inside save for a hastily scribbled “Happy Birthday!” No signature. Her breath hitched.

She slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent house. The kettle whistled, but she ignored it, clutching the card like a lifeline. She hated the hollowness that bloomed in her chest.

Amelia trudged over to the kitchen table and let the card fall. She couldn't meet her own gaze in the reflective surface of the toaster. She had failed again. Failed at being the friend she ought to be.

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