embarrassed - Story 40016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ground. His sister, Jessica, had been so excited when she called to announce her conversion to the Hare Krishna movement. He, Tom, however, felt a deep sense of discomfort. The extended family gathering felt different. He watched his uncle, a staunch conservative, stiffen at the news. He began to shuffle his feet, his gaze darting from one face to another. He felt the blood rush to his cheeks, making them burn. He made his excuses and retreated to the garden.

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