ashamed - Story 9507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scrape of the latch. The familiar thud. The tell-tale barking. Emily slammed her hand on the counter. She’d just made a batch of fresh cookies, which she had planned on dropping off at the new neighbors'. Now, she was mortified.

She peeked out the window, and saw Buster happily digging in their rose garden. The new neighbors seemed nice. Too nice to be dealing with her dog.

She sank into a kitchen chair, the air feeling thick and heavy. The cookies, now, felt like an insult. She knew she was failing in more ways than just keeping the dog in the yard.

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