embarrassed - Story 40060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in "Ace Pawn Shop" was thick with the scent of forgotten lives. Thomas pulled his collar higher, as if to shield himself from the judging gazes of the other patrons. He felt a deep sense of unease, a knot tightening in his stomach.

He was here because he had to be.

The woman behind the counter, her expression unreadable, finally called his name. Thomas took a shaky breath and approached, the velvet box clutched tightly in his hand. He fought the urge to turn and run.

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