embarrassed - Story 40076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tripped over the curb, a clumsy stumble that immediately felt wrong. He'd cultivated an online persona of effortless cool, of someone who glided through life with grace and style. Now, he was sprawled on the sidewalk, right in front of the very person who thought he was a sophisticated world traveler. He scrambled to his feet, muttering apologies, the blood roaring in his ears. He brushed off his clothes, acutely aware of the dust and the scuffed shoes he'd been so careful to hide in his online photos.

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