ashamed - Story 9427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the invitation mocked him. “Twenty Years!” it declared. He let out a bitter laugh, the sound hollow in the quiet room. He ran his hand over his face. He felt the weight of time, of all the things he hadn't done, of all the opportunities he’d squandered.

He went to the mirror, and the man staring back was a stranger. The man was tired, his eyes betraying a world of disappointment. He was nothing like the person he thought he'd become.

He had become a recluse. It was all he could 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