embarrassed - Story 40030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his stomach clench. The picture depicted a tall, thin figure with a long nose and a mischievous grin. It was Giggles, his childhood companion, the one he swore to keep hidden. He felt a knot tighten in his gut. His nephew was beaming with pride. He took a deep breath, attempting to remain collected. He cleared his throat. “That’s… remarkable,” he managed, his voice sounding unusually weak. He immediately looked away, pretending to be utterly captivated by the patterns on the wallpaper.

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