embarrassed - Story 40083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shovel clattered to the ground as Maya caught sight of her neighbor, Sarah, approaching. She'd been hoping to get the post holes dug before Sarah returned from her yoga class. Now, she felt a flush crawl up her neck, a heat that seemed to seep into her pores.

She hastily wiped her brow, leaving a smudge of dirt across her forehead. The plan had been simple: dig the holes, then casually mention the fence. Now, she felt like she'd been caught doing something…wrong.

"Hi, Sarah," she managed, her voice a little too high-pitched. She wished she'd worn a different shirt, one that didn't so obviously show the dirt she was covered in.

She scrambled to her feet, desperate to seem casual, as if her entire afternoon wasn't suddenly consumed by a deep sense of awkwardness.

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