embarrassed - Story 40070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, that can't be right." Ethan muttered, his voice barely audible. He reread the letter, hoping the words would magically change. They didn't. His throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The air in his room felt thick and oppressive.

He'd told his friends he was a shoo-in. Now, he'd be the laughingstock. He ran a hand through his hair, tangling the strands. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic rhythm.

He threw the letter onto his desk, the paper landing with a soft thud. He stood up abruptly and started pacing. He needed to be anywhere else.

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