embarrassed - Story 40194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of chalk and old wood brought a wave of unpleasantness over Emily. She stood in the doorway of her daughter's classroom, trying to smile. Miss Peterson. It was Miss Peterson. The woman who had given her countless detentions for doodling in class.

She swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. "Hi, Miss Peterson," she managed, her voice barely a whisper. Her daughter, Maya, immediately noticed her unusual quietness and gave her a curious look. Emily quickly turned away, hoping to avoid any further conversation and any possible revelations.

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