embarrassed - Story 40020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neighborhood barbecue had taken an unexpected turn. His younger brother, Kevin, announced he was becoming a Seventh-Day Adventist. The air, usually filled with the aroma of grilling burgers and cheerful chatter, was now heavy with a palpable tension. He, Alex, felt his face flush. He started fiddling with the barbecue tongs, rearranging the coals. He avoided looking at his friends, knowing they were exchanging glances. He knew he'd have to explain.

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