embarrassed - Story 40006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, unable to believe his eyes. The woman, grinning and flashing the camera, had his iconic raven design permanently etched on her lower back. It was his signature piece, the one he had spent so long refining.

He felt a tightening in his chest. He felt… exposed. He felt a weird, complicated emotion.

He closed the browser, then opened it again. He clicked on the image. It felt like an intrusion, a violation of sorts. He got off his chair, needing to pace.

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