embarrassed - Story 40204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the window of his upstairs office, David watched the tow truck haul away his vintage Mustang. His gut twisted. He had been so proud of that car. He had spent months restoring it. Now, it was being dragged away in front of all his neighbors. He abruptly turned away from the window, as if the sight was physically painful. He caught his own reflection in the darkened glass, and the sight of himself filled him with a deep sense of unease.

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