embarrassed - Story 40184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter’s questions felt like an interrogation. "Would you like dessert, sir?" The question hung in the air, heavy with unspoken accusations. He had seen the call log. Her face, flushed and animated, as she gesticulated wildly into the phone. Now, seated across from her, he couldn't meet her eyes. He felt a throbbing pulse at his temple. "No, thank you," he managed to say, his voice strained. He took a long, slow sip of water, the ice clinking against the glass.

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