embarrassed - Story 40026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper slipped from her grasp, fluttering to the floor. The image of Barnaby Bumble, the giant, talking bee, stared up at her from the floor. Her sister's face was creased with concern, looking at her with a gentle gaze. She bent down, picking up the drawing, and immediately looked away, her eyes focused on a crack in the wall. A nervous giggle escaped her lips. "He's... quite the artist, your son, isn't he?" she finally managed, her voice barely a whisper. She found herself rearranging the books on the nearby shelf, her movements jerky and unnecessary.

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