embarrassed - Story 40067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can I get you anything, honey?” The waitress’s cheery tone grated on Liam's ears. He could feel his face burning with shame as he stared at the rejection email on his phone. He'd bragged about his prospects to his entire family during their last visit to this diner.

He shook his head, unable to meet her gaze. He felt a deep desire to crawl under the table and hide from view. He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting.

He fiddled with the straw wrapper, twisting and turning it until it resembled a mangled paper sculpture. He needed to get out of here.

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