ashamed - Story 9510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the gate. A click. A joyful bark. It was a familiar sound, and it always filled her with a sense of dread. The hole under the fence. The same one.

She just stared. She was so tired. Fixing the fence was at the bottom of her endless to-do list.

She knew Mrs. Rodriguez would be furious. She could picture it. She felt the blood draining from her face. She sat down, suddenly feeling weak and defeated. She was letting her neighbor down. She was letting herself down.

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