embarrassed - Story 40002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he spotted him. The guy was across the street, leaning against a graffiti-covered wall, and there it was, glaring at him: Liam's signature skull with the roses, now permanent on a bicep.

He pulled his scarf higher, almost covering his face. He felt... awkward. He hadn't wanted this.

He fumbled for his keys, then wished he could teleport. He wanted to look away. He crossed the street with his head down, hoping he could get inside without the guy noticing.

The man looked up, grinned, and gave a thumbs up, then the most mortifying thing happened: he winked. Liam quickened his pace, heart hammering.

Emotion: embarrassed

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion embarrassed. 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 embarrassed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the embarrassed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the embarrassed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.420
`尴尬`	0.341
`C`	0.333
`culp`	0.262
`🤦`	0.256

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.321
`আনন্দের`	-0.230
`seemingly`	-0.227
`і`	-0.225
`আনন্দে`	-0.224