ashamed - Story 9496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, that’s that, then,” Robert mumbled, kicking at a loose pebble on the sidewalk. The patent denial notice felt like a weight in his pocket. He'd envisioned changing the world with his solar-powered water purifier. Now, he was just another nobody.

He walked home slowly, his head bowed. The city, usually a vibrant tapestry of life and energy, appeared muted, gray. Each step felt heavy, each shadow seemed to mock his ambition. He couldn't face his family just yet. He felt a sharp pang of… something he couldn’t name.

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