embarrassed - Story 40196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, if it isn't Mr. Harrison!" Mr. Reynolds boomed, his voice echoing in the school hallway. The sound sent shivers down Mark's spine. It was as if time had stopped. This teacher. The very same one who had once given him a failing grade in history.

He fumbled with the clasp on his briefcase, his fingers clumsy. His son, Sam, seemed to sense his father’s unease and clung to his leg. He looked up at his father, his eyes questioning. Mark mumbled a greeting, hoping to escape before he was forced to relive his school days. This was not the reunion he had been hoping for.

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