ashamed - Story 9629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart sank. She'd been complaining, in a series of cryptic posts on Tumblr, about the difficulty of the calculus class. Then she saw the follow. Mr. Carter. She felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying feeling. She had revealed so much of her struggles online, so many vulnerabilities. She wanted to vanish. She couldn’t look at him during class. She clutched her textbook, knuckles white, a lump forming in her throat.

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