embarrassed - Story 40007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery showing was supposed to be a triumph. But as Sarah greeted guests, a young woman approached her, displaying the vibrant, swirling patterns of Sarah's “Celestial Dance” series inked onto her back.

A wave of heat swept over her. She struggled to keep the smile plastered on her face. A hollow feeling consumed her.

She took a long sip of her wine, trying to appear collected. The woman was saying something about how much the art meant to her, but the words were a jumble in Sarah’s ears. She felt like the subject of a bizarre, unwanted performance. She excused herself, retreating towards the less populated side of the room.

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