ashamed - Story 9756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one?" Eleanor's husband asked, eyeing the small package. The postman had been delivering letters for a couple of days now. She hated these letters.

She ignored him, retreating to the sunroom. The letter from her former colleague, James, felt weighty. She remembered the petty words she'd spoken, the lies she'd spread.

The colorful flowers in the sunroom seemed overly bright. She felt as though she couldn't breath. Her vision began to blur, then her mind began to race.

She took a deep, shuddering breath.

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