embarrassed - Story 40054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door of "Second Chance Treasures" jingled, announcing Liam's arrival. He hunched his shoulders, wishing he could somehow disappear. The shop was crammed with dusty antiques and forgotten treasures. He focused on a particularly ornate music box to avoid meeting the shopkeeper's gaze.

He felt a deep sense of shame. He’d promised his mother he'd find it. Now here he was, about to ask for it back, while his wallet threatened to burst at the seams.

The owner, a woman with a mountain of tangled silver hair, shuffled towards him. "Can I help you, young man?" she asked, her voice surprisingly gentle. The question felt like an accusation.

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