embarrassed - Story 40230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint smell of crayons hung in the air as Sophia surveyed the collection of her mother's keepsakes. The sight of her first-grade self's scribbles on the page made her want to sink through the floor.

Her skin flushed. She wanted to laugh, to dismiss it all, but the feeling was overwhelming. The old, familiar feeling of vulnerability, and the intense desire to hide, returned with a vengeance.

She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to flee. The room felt like a spotlight, highlighting every perceived imperfection.

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