ashamed - Story 9487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rumble of the heavy machinery echoed in his ears, a constant reminder of the impending loss. David tried to appear nonchalant, leaning against the chain-link fence, but his jaw was clenched, his knuckles white. He should have fought harder, maybe found a way to save the house. He should have spoken up. He was too caught up in his own life, his own ambitions. The house represented the very best of him, and he had squandered that opportunity. He felt the sting of tears.

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