embarrassed - Story 40262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d imagined the celebration. The high-fives, the congratulations, the triumphant calls to his family. Instead, Liam stood awkwardly near the edge of the basketball court, the list of team selections clutched in his sweaty palm. His best friend, Mark, had made the varsity team. Liam swallowed hard, unable to meet Mark’s eye as he clapped his friend on the shoulder. He mumbled something about needing to grab his bag, then nearly tripped over the ball rack as he fled the scene. His ears felt like they were on fire.

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