embarrassed - Story 40115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights seemed to magnify the awkwardness. He’d worked his entire life to become a star quarterback, his arm was legendary. Now, they were telling him to be a linebacker. A linebacker! He stared at the ground, acutely aware of the dust motes dancing in the glare. He felt the blood rush to his face. The other players were quiet, their eyes fixed on him. He cleared his throat, the sound unusually loud in the sudden hush. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to find a place to hide the discomfort.

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