ashamed - Story 9761 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The saw's teeth had carved a brutal scar across the empty space. Sarah stared, the sun a hot weight on the back of her neck. That oak. Her oak. It was gone, reduced to a low, ragged stump. Her hands clenched into fists, nails digging into her palms. She hadn't visited the old house in years. Should have, she thought, the words a silent accusation she leveled at herself. Now, all that remained was a void, mirroring the hollow ache in her chest.

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