embarrassed - Story 40176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“So, what’s new with your ‘doctor’ boyfriend, Sophia?” asked her aunt across the dinner table. Sophia’s face flushed. She’d spent the past year bragging about Miles, his brilliant mind, the lives he saved. The doctor's expensive car, the long hours, the white coat... all part of the narrative.

Now, she looked at the chipped paint on the dining room wall, a feeling of deep, creeping discomfort washing over her. She picked at her food, unable to meet her aunt's inquisitive gaze.

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