embarrassed - Story 40356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd planned on a quick inspection, a once-over before calling a junk removal service. Now, standing amidst the detritus of another family's existence, David felt a strange… constriction. He felt so exposed, vulnerable.

A tattered wedding dress lay draped over a mannequin, its lace yellowed with age. He wanted to look away. He wanted to turn and flee. He was sure he could smell the faint scent of old perfume.

He let out a short, forced laugh. He'd always thought he was a practical man. He tugged at his collar, his skin suddenly prickling with sweat. The previous owners had left a part of their soul behind.

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