ashamed - Story 9573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were always so dramatic, Maya," Ethan said, a gentle laugh bubbling from his chest. "I have no idea who you're talking about, I'm afraid." Maya felt the sting of tears welling in her eyes. The laughter, meant to be welcoming, felt like a deliberate dismissal. She'd spent years imagining this moment, crafting the perfect re-introduction. All that effort now felt painfully foolish.

She had arrived at Ethan's art gallery, her heart pounding with anticipation. Now, she felt a creeping chill. She'd chosen a vibrant dress, hoping to appear confident, but it suddenly felt like a garish costume. She fumbled with the strap of her bag, her cheeks burning. "Right," she said, her voice thin, "Well, I guess I'll let you get back to your... art." She turned to leave, the gallery’s bright lights suddenly blinding.

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