embarrassed - Story 40228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the attic window illuminated the dust particles dancing in the air, mimicking the flutter in Liam’s stomach. This wasn't how he planned to spend his afternoon. He’d hoped to find his old baseball glove, not a time capsule of his academic failures.

His eyes fell on a particularly gruesome science project involving a jar of preserved eyeballs. His shoulders slumped.

He wanted to vanish, to rewind time and erase the memory of the project. A wave of heat flushed across his face. It was all a lot to take in.

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