embarrassed - Story 40095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to act casual, leaning against the kitchen counter as his mom chatted on the phone. "So, uh, what's on the agenda for today?" he asked, attempting a nonchalant tone. The truth was, he felt like a teenager all over again, hovering awkwardly while his mother went about her daily routine.

His mom, mid-sentence, gave him a pointed look, her eyebrows raised. He immediately straightened up. He knew what she was thinking: *When are you going to get a job?* He hadn't told her he was laid off yet. The lie sat heavy in his stomach.

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