ashamed - Story 9595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat unopened in the hallway. The advance copies of his book, the ones he'd been so eager to receive, were now a burden. He couldn’t bring himself to look at them. He knew, they would be mocking his failure.

He avoided his writing group, making excuses about a bad flu. The truth was, he couldn't bear to be around the success of others. Every shared triumph felt like a personal rebuke. He wanted to scream.

He wandered the city park, watching the leaves fall. The melancholy beauty of autumn felt like a fitting backdrop for his disappointment.

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