ashamed - Story 9705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. He felt as though the space was shrinking, suffocating him. When she had brought up Camp Starlight, he’d felt a coldness creep into his core. It was a place he’d rather forget.

He kept his head down, examining the floor buttons as though they held the secrets of the universe. He could feel her watching him, waiting for him to respond.

"So," she said, her voice bright. "Did you ever..." He cut her off abruptly, muttering about an upcoming meeting. The elevator doors opened with a hiss, and he all but bolted.

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