embarrassed - Story 40339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had almost forgotten about it. "Café Lumière" had always been a quiet constant, a comfortable haven. Now, staring at the empty storefront, he recalled all the happy memories there. He felt a deep pinch of regret.

He'd planned to introduce his girlfriend to the cafe on the day they met, but they never made it to that stage. He swallowed hard, trying to push down the sudden lump in his throat. He felt the blood rush to his face, and he turned away quickly, hoping no one had witnessed his reaction.

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