embarrassed - Story 40097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old couch, with its faded floral pattern, sunk beneath Clara's weight. She pulled the blanket tighter around her. She found her eyes drifting towards the picture frame on the mantelpiece, showing her graduation photo, smiling and radiating with the bright future she’d once imagined.

Her mother entered the living room, holding a stack of clean towels. "Make yourself comfortable, dear," she said, her voice soft. Clara just nodded, finding it hard to meet her gaze. She was keenly aware of the space she was taking up.

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