embarrassed - Story 40090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected to encounter Mr. Lee in the middle of his carefully orchestrated survey of the property line. Now, with a measuring tape in hand, he found himself floundering.

He stammered something about… “ensuring boundary compliance,” the words sounding ridiculous even to his own ears. He felt his cheeks grow warm. His hands began to sweat.

He shifted uncomfortably, avoiding eye contact. He knew he'd need to explain the new fence eventually. He really hoped he wasn't going to look like a fool.

The sun beat down on him, amplifying his discomfort.

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