embarrassed - Story 40125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the airport lounge pressed down on Maya. She was scheduled to arrive in time for her sister’s baby shower. Her little sister was pregnant with her first child and Maya had offered to help with all the preparations. The flight’s delay seemed to amplify the already existing pressure.

She avoided eye contact with the other travelers, even the friendly ones. She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to run. The room felt suddenly cramped, the air thick with unspoken judgment.

She scrolled through social media, seeing the happy posts already flooding in about the baby shower. Her own absence felt like a gaping void. She could feel the heat creeping up her neck, a sign she had been getting frequently over the last two hours.

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