embarrassed - Story 40004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, I love your work!" The words hit Mark like a physical blow. He froze mid-sentence, his entire body stiffening. The man, with his chest practically covered in Mark's surrealist landscapes, had a bright, enthusiastic smile.

He wanted to disappear. He thought about how hard he tried to be unique.

He tried to keep his voice steady as he mumbled, "Oh, thanks," but it came out a strangled whisper. He quickly excused himself, hurrying away from the admiring gaze, a knot forming in his stomach. He felt a desperate urge to get back to his studio, to something he could control.

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