embarrassed - Story 40167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the decorations seemed to scream at me. The moment I saw Daniel, my internal organs seemed to rearrange themselves in protest. I felt a sudden urge to find the nearest exit. I busied myself, rearranging my plate of appetizers.

He was making his way through the crowd, towards me. My breath caught in my throat. I felt a prickling sensation on the back of my neck. I tried to look relaxed, but I knew my face gave away the game. My smile felt strained, a mask I desperately wanted to remove.

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