embarrassed - Story 40024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to act casual. He really did. But the small, meticulously drawn depiction of Reginald the Raven, complete with tiny top hat and monocle, on his nephew’s bedroom wall made him want to disappear. He’d told nobody about Reginald. Not a soul. He felt a nervous itch behind his eyes. He cleared his throat. "Good job, kiddo," he rasped, avoiding his nephew's gaze. He quickly changed the subject to the weather, finding the current forecast suddenly and intensely fascinating.

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