embarrassed - Story 40019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his gut. His wife, Emily, had announced her conversion to a new-age spiritual practice, one that involved chanting and crystals. The family Christmas celebration had become an awkward performance. He, John, couldn't meet his mother's eyes. He picked at the turkey, suddenly devoid of appetite. The air was thick with unspoken judgements. He felt the words of the new practice echoing around the room and felt a burning in his ears.

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