embarrassed - Story 40148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports hall seemed vast and echoing. Liam had been so excited to finally get Coach Miller’s approval on his new jump. They had been working on it for weeks, the whole team had seen it. Now, Coach Miller was gone, a note on the bulletin board with the words, "See ya, kid." He had been so sure he was going to be the best. His legs felt shaky, his hands clammy. It was hard to imagine carrying on.

He kicked the basketball, not caring where it went. He walked over to the bench, and sat down.

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