embarrassed - Story 40350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sounds of haggling and laughter swirled around Ethan, but he heard none of it. His entire focus was centered on a small, familiar form. There, amidst a pile of discarded board games and forgotten toys, was his beloved, Buster. His face felt hot, and a wave of internal panic washed over him.

He pretended to examine a box of old tools, his fingers fumbling with a rusty wrench. His palms were sweating. The idea of anyone seeing him near the bear sent a wave of… well, something. He didn’t want anyone to see him.

"You interested in anything, son?" The seller, a woman with a kind smile, was looking directly at him. Ethan couldn’t meet her eyes.

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