ashamed - Story 9937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant bouquet of mixed flowers sat on the desk. She hadn't expected them. She didn't want them. Her hands, usually so steady when composing music, now felt clumsy. She hadn't responded to his messages. She should have. She reached for her phone, then paused, her fingers hovering over the screen. The flowers seemed to grow larger, more visible with each passing second.

She swiveled in her chair, avoiding eye contact with the blooms.

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