embarrassed - Story 40037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book signing was a disaster. There were only five people present and they all looked like they were there to gawk, not to celebrate. She had never been to anything like this before.

She wanted to call and cancel but it was too late.

The air felt thick with awkwardness. She felt the blood drain from her face. Every question felt like an insult. Her voice came out in a strained whisper. Each sentence was accompanied by an unbidden blush.

She signed the books with a trembling hand, hating every moment of it.

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