ashamed - Story 9828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thin, the silence heavy. James stared at the painting on the wall, the same painting he’d spent months creating. It was his. Yet, here it was, attributed to someone else. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine.

He felt the unwelcome weight of his own presence, a feeling of being too big for the room. He struggled to meet the artist's eye, the other creator, who was laughing and celebrating with everyone. His throat felt tight.

He slowly backed away, feeling a peculiar pressure in his chest. He needed out. He felt the need to escape, he needed air.

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