embarrassed - Story 40066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed the application packet closed, the sound echoing in his small bedroom. He’d spent months perfecting his essay, polishing his extracurricular activities, and now it was all for naught. He wanted to disappear.

He’d confided in his guidance counselor about his aspirations, his hopes. He couldn't bear to see her face again. He sat on his bed, the springs creaking under his weight. He ran his hand through his hair, mussing it further.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he stared blankly at the wall, the posters of his dream school mocking him from the surface.

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