embarrassed - Story 40257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well, aren't you the man of the hour?" The words were delivered with a mocking tone, and David clenched his jaw, refusing to respond. He had to bite his tongue to avoid lashing out.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a feeling of being exposed and vulnerable. He busied himself with the office paperwork, not looking up. He didn't want anyone to see the pain etched on his face.

The office seemed to close in on him, the walls felt oppressive. He made an excuse and left work early, seeking refuge in the park. The trees, their autumn colors, couldn't erase the feeling of being utterly diminished.

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