ashamed - Story 9737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn’t fair. Across the country. He knew it, he just knew it. Across the country, she would bloom, while he would wither. He should be happy for her, but a dark cloud had settled over him, and he couldn't shake it.

He found himself picking fights with her, small, petty disagreements designed to push her away. He knew it was wrong, but he couldn't help it.

When the moving van arrived, he stayed inside, pretending to be occupied. He watched her from his window, a tight knot forming in his stomach, as she waved goodbye.

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