embarrassed - Story 40272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat crashed over David as he entered the warehouse. The heavy metal door slammed shut behind him with a thud, echoing his own clumsy entrance. Previously a polished salesman, he was now relegated to the shipping department.

He tried to act confident, offering a weak smile to the burly foreman who greeted him. His hands wouldn’t cooperate. They felt clumsy as he tried to lift a cardboard box labeled “fragile”. He dropped it, the contents rattling loudly.

His stomach lurched. The other workers exchanged glances. He muttered an apology, but it came out as a strangled whisper. He longed to be back in the air-conditioned office, far away from the judging stares and the ever-present smell of packing tape.

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