embarrassed - Story 40085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, hi, Mr. Rodriguez,” Emily chirped, the sound a little too forced, a little too bright. She clutched the survey papers like a life raft. Her palms were slick with sweat.

He’d caught her just as she was about to plant a series of strategically positioned shrubs along the property line, a subtle hint of her plans. Now, her carefully laid strategy felt…wrong.

She managed a weak smile, acutely aware of the rogue strand of hair escaping her ponytail. A flush bloomed across her cheeks.

"Lovely day, isn't it?" she blurted, her voice echoing the desperation she felt.

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