embarrassed - Story 40136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come sit down, please, Ms. Evans,” the professor said, gesturing to a chair. Chloe took a seat, the wood cool against the back of her legs. Her hands were clammy. She kept them folded in her lap, like an offering.

The professor, Mr. Harding, was going over the material on his computer, occasionally glancing at her. Chloe felt a tremor in her hands. The air in the room seemed to be getting thin.

She wanted to say something, anything, but the words felt trapped.

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