embarrassed - Story 40285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed, a tiny electric shock that made Chloe jump. It was from Robert Sterling, the king of the playground back in elementary school. Chloe's stomach twisted. He’d made her life a misery for years. He always pushed her, calling her names.

She bit her lip, a familiar nervous gesture. It felt like the air in the room had suddenly thickened, making it hard to breathe. Her fingers fumbled as she tried to close the application. But it was just there on the screen, taunting her.

She turned off her laptop and went to the bathroom to splash some water on her face. Staring at herself in the mirror, she wondered how he had even found her.

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