ashamed - Story 9370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Happy Birthday!" the card exclaimed, its tone too cheerful, too hollow. She didn't recognize the handwriting on the envelope. The lack of a sender's name felt like a slap.

She was surprised. She'd been so sure someone would remember. She’d spent the last few weeks isolated, avoiding everyone.

She stood in the doorway, staring at the empty street. She wanted to call someone, but the words wouldn't come. She needed to be alone. She needed to hide.

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