embarrassed - Story 40116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You want me...to be the goalie?" Maria repeated, the words tasting strange in her mouth. She had always been the team's most prolific goal scorer. The coach nodded, his expression unreadable. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. She avoided looking at her teammates, feeling the weight of their scrutiny. Her shoulders slumped. She kicked at the grass, the familiar motion feeling foreign. She suddenly felt clumsy, out of place, like she'd never belonged on the field.

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