embarrassed - Story 40113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced mockingly as the coach called her over. Sarah felt her palms clam up. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the gymnasium. Point guard, the coach wanted her to be a center? She wasn't built for that. She was quick, agile. Centers were supposed to be strong, to fight for rebounds. She pushed the loose strand of hair off her forehead, avoiding eye contact with anyone. She felt a growing discomfort, a prickling sensation that started at the back of her neck and spread down her spine. The other girls were already starting to whisper.

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