embarrassed - Story 40114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt suddenly small, the air thick with unspoken judgments. Liam stared at his reflection, the image blurring. He'd been the team's ace wide receiver, known for his speed and catches. Now, they were shifting him to offensive line. The offensive line! He felt a wave of heat wash over him. He fiddled with the laces on his cleats, a nervous habit, unable to meet his teammate's eyes. He found himself looking everywhere but at the coach, who still stood watching him.

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