embarrassed - Story 40309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the company party, and the air buzzed with forced joviality. John, usually the life of the party, found himself glued to the sidelines, nursing a beer. He overheard conversations and it was confirmed, his junior colleague, Chris, made more than him. The room started to spin.

He watched Chris effortlessly navigate the room, laughing and joking with people John had known for years. A bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy washing over him, a feeling that no matter how hard he worked, he would never be enough. He needed to get out.

He made a hasty farewell, the cheerful music grating on his nerves, and fled into the night.

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