embarrassed - Story 40357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a disaster. Caroline had expected some old holiday decorations, maybe some seasonal clothes. She'd not anticipated this… this avalanche of personal belongings. She didn't know what to do.

She found a box filled with old diaries, their covers worn and creased. The thought of reading them, of intruding on someone's intimate thoughts, made her stomach churn. Her hands became clammy.

She quickly dropped the box, a thin layer of dust puffing into the air. She just wanted to go home and forget this existed. The diaries whispered secrets she wasn't sure she wanted to hear.

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