ashamed - Story 9464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain doll, a gift from his mother, clutched a tiny, faded teddy bear. Daniel hesitated at the entrance to the antique shop, the bell above the door a jarring sound. Selling it meant admitting he couldn't cope, that he was failing his young daughter.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his distress. The shop's cluttered interior, overflowing with forgotten treasures, seemed to amplify his sense of desperation. He could barely bring himself to look at the doll's vacant, painted eyes, her unchanging smile.

His steps were heavy as he moved further inside.

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