ashamed - Story 9365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt rough in her hand, the colors of the balloon design bright and cheery in contrast to the cold dread that settled in Clara's bones. Her birthday. The anonymous card. It's contents, "Happy birthday, have a great day." She'd been too busy, too wrapped up in her own life, to show up for others.

Her hands moved on their own, finding the keys, going to unlock her car. She couldn't face the empty house. Maybe a drive... somewhere, anywhere, away from the weight in her chest.

She started the engine, the rumble of the motor barely audible over the internal roar of regret.

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