embarrassed - Story 40055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in "Al's Jewelry & More" was thick with the scent of old metal and the weight of unmet expectations. Chloe’s hands trembled as she pulled the worn velvet box from her purse. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks, a feeling of inadequacy washing over her.

She had to do this. For the money. For her family.

The gruff voice of the shop owner, Al, broke through her thoughts. "What have we got here?" He leaned forward, his eyes narrowed, scrutinizing her every move. Chloe felt exposed and vulnerable.

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