embarrassed - Story 40126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” muttered Ben, his voice barely a whisper. The board flashed the dreaded words: “Delayed.” He was supposed to be at his son’s first baseball game, a moment he'd promised himself he wouldn't miss.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of agitation he usually reserved for work frustrations. He felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. The thought of facing his son's disappointment was almost physically painful.

He took his phone out and tried to compose a message. He wanted to sound reassuring, yet the words seemed hollow and insufficient. He glanced at the other passengers, each of them engrossed in their own journeys. He felt entirely alone in his dismay.

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