embarrassed - Story 40297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gift, wrapped in shimmering paper, felt ridiculously heavy in his hands. It represented weeks of saving, searching for the ideal present. He’d envisioned the look on her face, the genuine delight. Now, as he stood alone at the pre-determined meeting place, the gift was nothing but a painful reminder. He found himself avoiding eye contact with anyone who passed, acutely aware of their imagined judgment. He dropped the gift in a nearby trash can.

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