embarrassed - Story 40292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d spent the whole afternoon perfecting his entrance, practicing a casual, witty greeting. Now, the darkened restaurant felt cavernous, the air thick with the scent of unsold seafood. David stood frozen in the doorway, his carefully chosen tie suddenly constricting his throat. He felt the heat crawl up his neck, a slow, torturous burn. He avoided the waiter’s eye, his smile plastered and brittle as he stammered, “Uh, table for…one?”

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