embarrassed - Story 40050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drilling had started again, and Leo, mid-sentence, stopped. He had been trying to impress his date, telling her about his upcoming trip to Italy. The noise had completely ruined the moment. He could feel the color rise in his face.

The hammering was distracting. He cleared his throat and tried to continue, but the words felt forced, unnatural. He glanced towards the window, silently cursing the renovation next door. He felt a tension in his chest.

He hoped the noise would stop soon. He tried to steer the conversation away from the specifics of their trip, hoping his date wouldn't notice his sudden lack of enthusiasm. The atmosphere had been irrevocably altered.

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