ashamed - Story 9819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood outside the office building, the name etched on the glass a brand. He was a successful doctor, he wasn't supposed to need help. Now, he was seeking it from the man who used to make his life a daily torment.

He felt the sting of humiliation as he imagined the conversation. He had never admitted weakness to anyone, not even his wife. He was a man of logic and control, but the anxiety was unravelling him.

He took a deep breath, steeling himself. He wanted to run, but he opened the door and entered. The smile on the man’s face felt like a challenge.

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