embarrassed - Story 40247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white of the examination room felt suffocating. Mark had just received the news about the mixed-up files. He was suddenly aware of every sound: the hum of the refrigerator, the distant chatter. He felt a wave of heat wash over him. He felt his face turn hot and red. He tugged at his tie, suddenly feeling constricted. He should say something, apologize, but the words wouldn't come. He just wanted to disappear. He felt like a fool.

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