ashamed - Story 9485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car a block away, unable to bring himself to get any closer. John sat there, the engine idling, watching the slow dance of the wrecking ball. The first swing, a slow, deliberate movement, took a chunk out of the living room wall. He thought of his mother, her favorite china, smashed on the floor. He should have stayed, helped her with her grief. He should have been a better son. A wave of nausea hit him. He turned off the engine, unable to bear it any longer.

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