embarrassed - Story 40091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped ceramic mug felt heavy in Elias's hand as he followed his mother into the kitchen. The floral wallpaper swam before his eyes. He hadn't been back in this house, his childhood home, for years. He cleared his throat. "So, uh, coffee?"

His mom hummed, already busy at the counter. "Help yourself, dear. The good stuff's in the pantry." Elias swallowed hard and walked towards the pantry, trying not to make a sound. The squeak of the linoleum floor was amplified in the sudden silence. He yanked the pantry door open, wincing at the harsh creak of the hinges, and then busied himself searching for the coffee, pretending to be fully absorbed in the task.

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