embarrassed - Story 40158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the silence. He found himself staring at the floor, focusing on the intricate patterns of the carpet. He didn't want to meet Lisa's gaze. It felt like a test, a direct assessment of his worth.

He ran a hand over his face, trying to compose himself. He could feel the blood pounding in his ears. He wasn't sure he could face this.

He thought of the late nights preparing, the shared coffee breaks where they’d discussed their hopes. Now, the shared experience felt like a burden, an unnecessary weight.

He had no idea how to make this better.

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