embarrassed - Story 40039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the headline that got her. "From Zero to Heroine: The Unbelievable Life of Eleanor Vance." The accompanying picture, a candid shot of her looking utterly ridiculous at her birthday party, was mortifying.

She pulled the covers over her head, wishing she could sleep forever.

She couldn't bring herself to face the day. Her phone buzzed with notifications, each one a fresh assault on her psyche. She refused to answer.

She just wanted the world to stop looking at her, stop talking about her, stop knowing her.

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