embarrassed - Story 40084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his living room window, David watched Mr. and Mrs. Peterson emerge from their house. He'd been meticulously prepping his presentation for weeks, a carefully crafted PowerPoint detailing the benefits of a sound-dampening fence.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable tightness in his chest. His stomach did a nervous flip.

He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to retreat. He'd planned to be out there, greeting them with a confident smile. Now, he felt the all-too-familiar urge to hide. The presentation seemed to mock him.

He knew he couldn’t avoid them forever. He had to face his neighbors.

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