ashamed - Story 9570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band started a song. Sarah watched her friend, Emily, and her group of friends have fun at her roller skating rink party. Emily's party was at the same time as hers. She felt a knot in her stomach. She had invited everyone, thinking it would be fun.

Sarah took a deep breath. She glanced at the nearly empty dance floor. It felt like she had done something wrong. The music pounded in her ears, each beat echoing her disappointment.

She made a quiet excuse to her parents. She wanted to be anywhere else. The bright lights of the rink felt too harsh, the laughter of the few attendees a mocking sound. She thought about not going back.

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