embarrassed - Story 40012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his stomach clench. He’d known his sister, Maria, was drifting. He just hadn't expected this. The announcement, delivered with such serenity, about joining the Baha’i faith, hung in the air like a poorly-timed joke. He, David, stared at his plate, suddenly fascinated by the pattern on the floral china. He found himself picking at the roast chicken, the food suddenly tasteless. He avoided making eye contact with his mother who had always been so proud of the family's traditions.

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