embarrassed - Story 40017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small town gossip machine was already in full swing. Her daughter, Amy, was now embracing Judaism. The news, broken at the grocery store, had spread like wildfire. She, Susan, felt a burning sensation in her chest. She had to shop, but suddenly, the aisles felt treacherous. People smiled, but their smiles held an unfamiliar edge, and their whispers followed her like a shadow. She gripped her shopping basket so tightly that her knuckles were white.

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