ashamed - Story 9732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Across the country. Miles and miles away. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He should be thrilled for Chloe, ecstatic about this incredible opportunity. But all he felt was this thick, cloying sensation of… something heavy.

He found himself avoiding her calls, making excuses about being busy. He knew it was cowardly, a betrayal of their bond, but he couldn't bear to hear the joy in her voice. The anticipation of her move was killing him.

When they did finally meet, he barely spoke, letting her chatter on about packing and new beginnings, and he just nodded, his gaze fixed on the cracks in the sidewalk. The silence between them felt so thick you could cut it.

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