embarrassed - Story 40009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The convention hall buzzed with energy. Anya had worked tirelessly to get to this point, her artwork displayed on the walls. Then, she saw it: her meticulously crafted dragon, now permanently emblazoned on a man's bicep. It was her prize-winning piece.

Her jaw clenched, her hands clenching. She felt like she should say something, do something.

She averted her eyes, feeling a strange disconnect from the enthusiastic chatter around her. The man noticed her and gave her a thumbs up. Anya managed a weak smile, but quickly turned and ducked behind a pillar, suddenly craving the solitude of her studio.

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