ashamed - Story 9776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is amazing, David!" his sister, Emily, exclaimed, gesturing around the renovated beachfront property. A luxurious escape, a life of leisure. Everything he'd ever wanted, or so he thought.

David, however, felt a persistent churning in his stomach. He didn't want anyone to see his inheritance, the worn backpack. The backpack was filled with old notebooks and a battered camera. He felt his face burn.

His father had been a passionate traveler and photographer. He was an adventurer, a risk-taker, a man who saw the world differently. David, on the other hand, had spent his life in the same city, living a safe, predictable existence.

He felt the weight of his father's spirit, the unspoken expectation that he would somehow live up to the legacy. He knew he couldn't.

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