embarrassed - Story 40104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I swallowed hard, the lump in my throat refusing to budge. The room suddenly seemed very small, the scent of stale coffee and printer ink overwhelming. My replacement, a woman with a no-nonsense air, stood beside me, taking notes on a tablet. I attempted a joke, something about the joys of dealing with spreadsheets, but it died in my throat. I cleared my throat and, quickly, pointed at a line of data. "This, uh, this is where you can see the, you know…" I trailed off, my mind suddenly blank.

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