embarrassed - Story 40077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slick with sweat. He was standing directly behind her in the queue for the concert, the same concert she'd told him she’d already seen “a million times.” She’d built up this image of herself as a musical connoisseur, but here she was, desperately hoping to avoid eye contact, praying he wouldn't ask her about her favorite song. She stared intently at the back of the person in front, as if that would somehow make her vanish.

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