embarrassed - Story 40106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands were clammy. I could feel beads of sweat forming on my forehead as I struggled to explain the intricacies of the company’s convoluted filing system. “So, you see,” I started, then immediately lost my train of thought. He looked at me expectantly. I took a deep breath, trying to regain my composure. The thought of all the years I'd spent here, and the ease with which he seemed to absorb the information, made my chest feel tight.

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