embarrassed - Story 40355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door, a portal to a forgotten world, swung inward with a protesting shriek. Emily swallowed hard. She didn't like attics, with their hidden shadows and musty smells.

What met her gaze was a chaos of forgotten objects, discarded toys, and moth-eaten furniture. She felt her face flush hot. She found a child's art project, a drawing of a family with a bright yellow sun. A single teardrop, dried and cracked, was visible on the corner of the picture.

She should stay, she should keep sorting. She turned and began backing away from the scene, her chest tight.

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