embarrassed - Story 40124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't happening," muttered David, pacing the small confines of the airline gate. His grandmother’s 90th birthday party was the following day. His arrival was crucial, but the latest announcement confirmed yet another delay.

He felt a tightness in his throat, making it difficult to breathe. Each announcement was like a punch to the gut. He kept imagining the disappointment on his grandmother’s face, a look he knew so well from childhood.

He started composing a text message to his parents, carefully choosing words that would convey his predicament without revealing the depth of his discomfort. He deleted and retyped several times, unable to find the right balance of apology and explanation. His palms were slick with sweat.

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