ashamed - Story 9569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat at the head of the table, his family assembled for his birthday dinner. The silence felt heavy, a counterpoint to the festive decorations. He knew why. His party was scheduled to start at the exact same time as his best friend, Michael's, outdoor adventure party.

He picked at his food, his appetite vanished. He wanted to shout. He wanted to scream. He wanted to blame someone, anyone. The weight in his stomach made it hard to breathe.

His father raised his glass for a toast, and John forced a smile. The smile felt like a lie, a betrayal of something he couldn't name. He knew this would ruin his party.

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