ashamed - Story 9565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of baking filled the air, the aroma of cookies for his guests. David’s birthday, with a baking competition, was supposed to be perfect. Then the text from Emily popped up: “Karaoke night! Saturday! Be there!” Same day, same time.

He felt the blood drain from his face. The meticulously crafted buttercream frosting suddenly seemed like a symbol of his ineptitude, a frivolous endeavor. He considered scraping it into the trash.

He found himself avoiding his mother's eyes, who had happily volunteered to help him with the baking. The joyous energy of the kitchen, moments ago, felt suddenly oppressive. He wanted to be anywhere else.

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