ashamed - Story 9909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice caught in her throat as she tried to explain the situation to her advisor. Her advisor, who had always seemed so confident, so reassuring, now looked at her with an expression that seemed both sympathetic and, somehow, distant. She looked away.

The weight of the impending closure pressed down on her. All her hopes, all her aspirations, felt tainted. How could she possibly explain this to anyone? Her dreams now seemed foolish, childish.

She rushed from the office, tears burning her eyes. She wanted to scream.

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