embarrassed - Story 40147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling coffee shop felt unusually loud. Michael stood frozen, holding the manuscript in his hand. He’d been planning to meet with Mr. Garcia, his writing mentor, to get his advice. They had discussed this for weeks. This sudden departure, with no warning, felt like a personal affront. His fingers fidgeted with the edge of the manuscript.

He turned to leave the coffee shop, and immediately turned back. Taking a deep breath, he walked back to a table, and opened the manuscript. He would have to continue without him.

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