ashamed - Story 9414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, Dad?" Liam's voice, small and uncertain, cut through the quiet of the kitchen. Mark, standing over the sink, scrubbed the same spot on the counter repeatedly. He’d found the wallet in the street, overflowing with bills. Enough to fix the roof, finally. Enough to give Liam those extra music lessons.

He looked at his son, whose hopeful eyes were fixed on him. Guilt gnawed at him. He swallowed hard. "Yeah," he managed, his voice sounding hollow. "Just… tired."

He turned back to the counter, the coldness of the ceramic a small comfort.

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