embarrassed - Story 40008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a jolt of shock, then... something else. He was at a bar, chatting with friends, when he caught sight of the bartender’s arm. The tattoo was unmistakable: a large, detailed rendition of his most personal self-portrait.

His breath hitched. He wasn't sure how to feel. He felt a strange unease. He felt as though he’d been stripped of some privacy.

The bartender, noticing his gaze, gave him a friendly nod. He forced a smile, but his throat felt tight. He quickly looked away, feeling a sudden need to leave. He took a long gulp of his drink.

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