embarrassed - Story 40219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over him as Liam, with a grin, recounted their high school talent show performance. He was the one who had written the song. He was the charismatic lead singer, not the nervous, backing guitarist as it played in Oliver's memory.

Oliver's face felt hot, and the corners of his mouth felt twisted. He wanted to interrupt, to correct the story, but the words wouldn't come. He studied the intricate design on the tablecloth, suddenly enthralled by the pattern.

"You were amazing up there, Liam," said a friend. Oliver winced at the implication. He wanted to sink into the floor.

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