ashamed - Story 9736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Across the country. The words reverberated in his ears as Emily excitedly described her new life. He wanted to be happy, he truly did. The new job, the new apartment, the new… everything.

He excused himself, leaving their favorite spot, the park bench overlooking the city, and he walked home. He pulled the curtains shut in his apartment, feeling the sun's glare sear his skin. He couldn't meet her gaze and that was all he could fixate on.

Later, he trashed his plans. He stayed indoors and did nothing, the weight of the situation crushing him. The silence of his apartment felt like a judgement.

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