embarrassed - Story 40192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Mark’s palms as Mr. Henderson, his fifth-grade teacher, greeted him at the school's open house. He'd been hoping for a different teacher for his son, Daniel. This was truly unfortunate. The man hadn't aged a day.

He stammered a greeting, his voice catching in his throat. Daniel, sensing his father’s discomfort, looked up with a questioning frown. Mark busied himself with the handouts, avoiding eye contact with both Mr. Henderson and his son. He really didn't want Daniel to know about the time he'd gotten detention for swapping the class hamster's cage with the gerbil's.

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