ashamed - Story 9462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza smoothed the wrinkles on her threadbare dress, the gesture a nervous tic she couldn't seem to break. Her grandmother's silver locket, engraved with their family crest, felt heavy and cold in her palm. Selling it to fund her son's tuition felt like a betrayal.

She stood outside the jewelry store, the glittering displays a stark contrast to her own meager possessions. Inside, the shop buzzed with affluence, a world away from her reality. The ornate doors seemed to taunt her, reflecting the distorted image of her own self-loathing back at her.

Taking a deep, shaky breath, she finally pushed open the door. The chime of the bell felt like a death knell.

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