embarrassed - Story 40010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a book reading, enjoying the quiet atmosphere. Then, the author of the book, a woman he admired, had to introduce herself. He saw a flash of ink: his stylized koi fish design, swimming across her forearm.

He felt a sudden rush of warmth, followed by a chill. He felt… unsettled. It was a good feeling, or something he assumed it should be.

He found himself fidgeting, unsure how to react. He wanted to compliment her, say something, but the words wouldn't come. He shifted his weight, his gaze darting away from the artwork. He felt a strange impulse to go, to flee the situation.

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