embarrassed - Story 40216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, pretending to be absorbed in the descriptions. The waiter was waiting, but he couldn't meet his eyes. The words coming from Daniel’s mouth were a familiar story, but one he didn’t recognize. According to Daniel, the infamous prank at the summer camp had been his idea. He could feel heat suffuse his entire being.

He swallowed hard, his throat suddenly dry. He focused on the tiny flecks of paint on the wall, trying to avoid Daniel’s gaze. He felt a deep sense of dread, as if he was being accused of something.

"I can't believe we got away with that," Daniel chuckled. The waiter cleared his throat. He placed his order in a voice he barely recognized. The story felt wrong, alien, and he was left feeling deeply unsettled.

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