embarrassed - Story 40053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of "Quick Cash" seemed to amplify every imperfection in the room. Sarah avoided eye contact with the man behind the bulletproof glass, her gaze fixed on the chipped linoleum floor. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous habit.

She'd been putting this off for weeks. She knew the ring was worth a small fortune, but the idea of selling it... the sheer indignity of it...

The man finally spoke, his voice flat and monotonous. "What do you have?" Sarah slowly, carefully, placed the velvet box on the counter. She felt a tightening in her stomach, a feeling of being exposed and judged.

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