embarrassed - Story 40128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like the air was being sucked out of the room for Michael. He’d booked this flight to surprise his girlfriend. He was going to propose to her. He had the ring. Now, the flight had been delayed for what felt like an eternity.

He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The minutes ticked by slowly, each one a hammer blow to his carefully laid plans. He began walking around, fidgeting.

He picked up his phone and started composing a message to his girlfriend, but then he put it back down again. What could he say? The anticipation, the joy he'd felt, had been replaced by a crushing weight in his chest.

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