embarrassed - Story 40179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t want to go to the party. He really didn’t. The constant questions, the backslapping, the forced pleasantries... all of it seemed unbearable. He knew everyone would ask about Emily, the "famous journalist" he'd been dating. He imagined the eager looks, the envy. He pictured her working at the local diner.

He feigned a sudden illness, cancelling at the last minute. He spent the evening staring at the ceiling, feeling utterly drained.

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