ashamed - Story 9874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email, subject line: "Important Announcement Regarding Your Sculpture," had been the first warning. Now, Leo stood frozen before the park's centerpiece: a towering bronze sculpture of his late wife, her form warped and distorted by an unknown hand. He couldn’t look at it.

His legs felt like lead weights. The pristine lines and loving details of his original design were gone, replaced by something vulgar. He bit down on his lip, tasting blood. He felt a deep well of disgust, not just for the defacement but for the public spectacle it created.

He wanted to scream, to lash out at someone, anyone. Instead, he just stood there, rooted to the spot, watching as a crowd gathered, murmuring and pointing. Each gaze felt like a fresh wound. He turned and walked away, not looking back.

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