embarrassed - Story 40088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering stopped abruptly. Across the yard, he could see Ms. Evans staring. Kevin dropped his own hammer, clattering it to the ground. His face burned.

His carefully constructed plan, the slow, subtle installation of a fence section by section, seemed to unravel before his eyes. He hadn’t been expecting her to be home today.

He rubbed the back of his neck, acutely conscious of the sweat beading on his forehead.

He offered a sheepish grin, his usual confidence completely dissolved. The silence hung heavy in the air.

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