ashamed - Story 9469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I need to know," Elias began, his voice cracking. He gestured towards the vintage guitar, its polished wood reflecting the dim light of the pawn shop. It was his father's, and the instrument held a treasure trove of memories and emotions.

He felt a deep discomfort, a sense of failure settling over him as the pawnbroker examined the guitar. He shifted from foot to foot, avoiding the man's direct gaze. The music shop was filled with instruments, each one an invitation to be something he could not currently be.

The pawnbroker made his assessment. Elias felt the blood drain from his face.

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