ashamed - Story 9930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was running, as he often did, trying to escape the confines of his own mind. He had to avoid her, but he knew her route. He saw her at the end of the street, and he crossed the road.

He ran faster. The other side of the road was the end of his route. He turned back. She was at the same spot. He saw her face fall. He went to the other side of the road again, and stopped. He watched her cross the street.

As she came up to him, they both started to walk in the same direction, not saying a word. After a moment, she stopped and said, "It is okay to be here." He felt a strange peace settle upon him.

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