ashamed - Story 9940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah found the orchids on her doorstep when she returned from a weekend away. No note. Her shoulders slumped. She’d been so rude. So careless. She'd told her friend some awful things. She picked up the flowers, the delicate petals brushing against her skin.

She slowly carried them inside, placing them on the kitchen table, the silence in the house amplifying the gravity of her actions. Her hands remained curled in fists for a long time.

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