embarrassed - Story 40224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David found the meticulously organized boxes in his mother's closet, a familiar discomfort started to bloom inside him. The first thing he saw was a crude drawing of a stick figure family he’d made in kindergarten. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide it.

His palms started to sweat as he navigated the sea of paper. There were book reports with misspelled words, and science projects that had clearly been assisted by his parents. The air around him suddenly felt suffocating.

He wanted to argue that it was all in the past, that he was no longer that clumsy, awkward child. He just couldn't. It was all laid out there, on display.

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