embarrassed - Story 40307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team meeting was a disaster. Sarah, the team lead, announced a new project, and then casually mentioned her increased salary. The details of the project failed to register for Mark. He found himself focusing on the way she said the numbers, the way her eyes darted around the room. It was evident she had no idea how much she made.

He stared at the table, his fingers nervously tracing patterns on the notepad in front of him. Each mention of the project's success, each boast, felt like a deliberate jab.

Later, he found himself staring into the mirror, examining his reflection, searching for the flaws that had led to this. His image seemed alien, unfamiliar. He wanted to scream.

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