ashamed - Story 9563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom glittered, tables draped in pristine white, awaiting the guests for Chloe's masquerade. She clutched a glass of sparkling water, the bubbles mocking her. The email from Emily, the rival who always stole her thunder, had arrived that morning: “Beach bonfire! BYOB! Saturday!” Same time, of course.

Chloe, usually a picture of composure, found herself fidgeting, adjusting her elaborate mask unnecessarily. The intricate plans she'd made, the months of meticulous preparation, suddenly felt fragile, bordering on pathetic.

She saw her mother approaching, a beacon of pride, and quickly plastered on a smile. The smile felt foreign, a mask over another mask. She wished she had never planned this at all.

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