ashamed - Story 9759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photo album lay open on the worn rug, a silent testament to a happier time. The letter from his childhood friend, Ben, lay next to it, a stark contrast to the faded images. The air in the room felt heavy and still.

He remembered the youthful cruelty, the broken promise. The feeling made his chest ache, and his hands felt numb. He couldn't look at the photos anymore.

He closed the album, a sudden decision, and buried his face in his hands.

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