embarrassed - Story 40308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new job was supposed to be a fresh start. Liam, however, felt a sinking feeling when he heard the offer made to the new graduate. The offer was higher than his own, and he'd been working there for over five years. He gave a weak smile.

He found himself constantly comparing himself. He was now feeling the burden of resentment towards his new colleague. He avoided any contact with them, and tried to concentrate on his work. The joy of the new job was gone, replaced by a dull, throbbing disappointment.

His motivation was fading, and his self-esteem was plummeting. The new job was now a source of distress.

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