embarrassed - Story 40346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his face a mask of casual indifference as he picked through a pile of old gardening tools. Michael hadn’t planned on attending a yard sale, but his neighbor had dragged him along. Then, in a corner, amidst a pile of forgotten toys, he spotted him. The once fluffy bear, now threadbare and a little worse for wear, was unmistakably Mr. Snuggles. He felt a heat creeping up his face.

His fingers tightened around a rusty trowel, knuckles white. He considered just walking away, pretending he hadn't seen it, but his feet felt glued to the spot. He cleared his throat, suddenly feeling self-conscious about his height.

"Anything catch your eye, sir?" the woman asked, her eyes twinkling. Michael turned away, hoping she couldn’t tell.

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