ashamed - Story 9954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was opulent, the air thick with the scent of old money and unspoken judgements. Across the polished mahogany desk, her father's lawyer had just revealed the contents of the time capsule – a handwritten letter addressed to "My Future Self." In it, she, as a teenager, had declared her dreams of becoming a world-renowned artist and of liberating her parents. Her face felt hot. Her gaze drifted downward, studying the intricate pattern of the Persian rug. Now, she was a bank manager, a cog in the machine. She wished she had never been.

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