ashamed - Story 9493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning crowd, but Leo felt utterly isolated. He nursed his lukewarm latte, the ceramic cup cold against his clammy palms. He’d envisioned the headlines: "Leo Maxwell, Inventor of the Revolutionary Hydroponics System…" The dream had evaporated, replaced by the crushing weight of reality.

He avoided eye contact with everyone. The vibrant chatter, the cheerful greetings, grated on his nerves. He'd poured his life savings, his every spare moment, into his invention. Now, it was just another idea, already claimed. His shoulders slumped, he felt reduced to nothing.

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