embarrassed - Story 40100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence in the car was crushing. His dad drove, never saying a word. Alex stared out the window, at the familiar scenery of his childhood. Everything felt wrong, and he didn't know how to fix it.

He imagined the house, the small bedroom, the constant presence of his parents. He squeezed his eyes shut. When they pulled into the driveway, he couldn't bring himself to open the car door. He had to go inside, to face it. He took a deep breath, and opened the door.

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