embarrassed - Story 40150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop was cold. The air, thick with the scent of sawdust and oil, felt stagnant. George had been planning to show Mr. Ito his latest prototype, the culmination of months of work. He stood there, the unfinished project clutched in his hands, feeling a coldness spread through his chest. He felt like he had been forgotten, cast aside.

He spun on his heel and walked towards the exit, his shoulders slumped. He felt an urge to run, to escape the physical weight of the place.

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