ashamed - Story 9406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garden was overgrown, choked with weeds mirroring her neglect. The sight sent a wave of heat up through Liam. He hadn’t been there when she needed him. The promises made were just echoes now.

He didn't bother to respond when his sister, Olivia, started listing the necessary repairs. He just felt an intense need to disappear. He retreated, turning his back on the house, on the tangled vines, the memories that stabbed at his heart.

He’d always thought he had time. Now, there was no time left to fix the situation. The weight of his actions threatened to suffocate him.

Olivia continued talking, oblivious. "This place could be amazing!"

He muttered, "Sure." The single syllable sounded thin and hollow in the vast yard.

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