ashamed - Story 9868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air. On the doorstep sat a basket, warm and inviting. He recognized the scent instantly.

The bakery was down the street. It was from Thomas, the boy who he had constantly made fun of for his weight. He’d never encouraged Thomas to pursue his dream of owning a bakery.

He retreated inside, the silence of the house pressing down on him. He pulled a chair to the window and stared at nothing.

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