embarrassed - Story 40111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words hung in the air, thick and heavy. Marcus felt his cheeks flush. He'd been the star striker, the one they relied on to score. Now, Coach Miller wanted him to play defense. He swallowed, the lump in his throat making it hard to speak. "But…I…I don't know how to defend," he mumbled, his voice barely audible. He kicked at a loose pebble, wishing the ground would swallow him whole. All the other players had gone silent, watching him. He could feel the weight of their gaze, a scorching pressure that made him want to bolt.

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