embarrassed - Story 40336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Sushi Den" was more than just a restaurant to him; it was an experience. The artistry, the quiet atmosphere, the perfectly prepared fish - everything contributed to a sense of calm he desperately needed. Now, the handwritten note on the door read "Temporary Closure." He knew better.

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually avoided. He felt a ridiculous urge to argue with the note, to demand an explanation. He felt a stinging behind his eyes. He didn't know why this bothered him so much. He turned and walked away, his shoulders slumped.

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