ashamed - Story 9429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at the invitation. The paper seemed to vibrate in his hand. He was gripped by a sudden, intense desire to vanish, to become invisible. He balled the invitation into a tight, damp wad. He needed to get away, to disappear.

The faces of his classmates, their expectant smiles, already danced in his mind. He was a shadow of his former self, a forgotten footnote. His accomplishments felt meager, insignificant. He felt a cold dread settle in his stomach.

He needed a drink. He needed to be alone.

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