embarrassed - Story 40036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You, uh, you were the subject of that biography, right?" The delivery guy, a pimply-faced teenager, was staring at her with wide eyes. He was holding a pizza box.

Her name was splashed across the package, alongside her address.

She wished she had the courage to tell him to go away. Instead, she just stood there, mortified.

"A Life of Unspoken Truths," the book was titled, detailing her mundane existence. She could barely bring herself to look at him.

Her voice cracked when she paid for the pizza, hoping he'd just leave.

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