embarrassed - Story 40358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was thick and stagnant, heavy with the scent of decay. Mark felt a sudden discomfort as he looked around. He’d always enjoyed a tidy space, and this was anything but.

He unearthed a box overflowing with old love letters, tied together with a faded blue ribbon. The handwriting was elegant, the words passionate and intimate. He felt… ill at ease, the words in the letters echoing in his head.

He turned to escape, to get away from the memories that were still alive. He mumbled something about needing to check the roof, anything to get away from these discarded ghosts.

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