embarrassed - Story 40197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground, usually a source of joy, now seemed to mock her. When she'd seen Mrs. Miller standing with her arms folded by the monkey bars, a wave of heat had rushed through Chloe's chest. Mrs. Miller was as imposing as ever.

Her daughter, Sophie, raced over, her face beaming. "Mom, Mrs. Miller says I'm really good at reading!" Chloe offered a weak smile, wishing she could rewind time. She recalled Mrs. Miller calling her parents about her own disruptive behavior. She tried to appear enthusiastic, but a deep sense of dread settled in her stomach.

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