ashamed - Story 9646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking a mocking rhythm. He'd been the one to champion the "new era" of the company, to hype the next big thing. Now, the new era was ending, and he'd been left behind. He remembered his overly enthusiastic presentations, the promises he'd made, the accolades he'd received. He felt a sudden urge to erase everything, to rewrite history. He began to delete files, and then stopped.

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