embarrassed - Story 40258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony. A nightmare. From the moment the name was called for the "Best Young Researcher" award, his stomach churned. The winner was announced, of course, as the person whose name was now attached to his work. His mouth went dry.

He forced a smile, clapping politely, feeling the blood drain from his face. Every well-deserved word of praise seemed to pierce him, each acknowledgment a fresh wound. He couldn't meet the eyes of anyone he knew. He excused himself quickly and escaped into the night.

The city lights blurred, reflecting the turmoil within him. He felt hollow, empty, as if his essence had been stolen. The world spun. He wondered if he could ever feel right again.

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