embarrassed - Story 40068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s words, intended to be encouraging, fell flat. The news of the denial stung, a personal failure magnified by the official environment. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He had believed so strongly in his own abilities. He had presented his case confidently, his voice ringing with conviction. Now, he felt the gaze of the principal and, worse, of himself.

He fidgeted, adjusting his tie, pushing his glasses up his nose repeatedly. He wanted nothing more than to retreat, to vanish from the room. He felt small, insignificant.

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