ashamed - Story 9795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party was a disaster. Caroline couldn't meet anyone's gaze. The casual conversation about renovations, about how much they loved the house, felt like needles poking at her skin. She had meticulously planned the menu, the floral arrangements, everything. But all she could think about was the police report, the details, the evidence markers. She excused herself, claiming a headache. In the guest bathroom, she stared at her reflected misery. The beautifully scented soap felt like a taunt.

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