embarrassed - Story 40263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So… you didn't make the cut?" The question, delivered with a forced cheerfulness from her older sister, sliced through Clara like a knife. Clara just shrugged, avoiding eye contact. She fiddled with the strap of her violin case, the weight suddenly feeling immense. The air in the music room felt thick and heavy. She hadn't said a word to anyone, just gathered her things and left as quickly as possible. The walk home felt like a long, slow march.

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