embarrassed - Story 40366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a vibrant shade of yellow, with a generic flower design. The sender had clearly put zero effort into it. The lack of a signature felt…disconcerting. It was her birthday. She’d made a big deal about it, but no one seemed to care.

She quickly scanned the street, her eyes darting from side to side. She felt the weight of the card in her hands. She hurried inside, closing the door behind her with a loud thump. She quickly hid it under a pile of mail, feeling the strange sensation of shame.

She didn't want anyone to know she had received it. She didn't want to open it. She took a deep breath. She decided to go to the shop and treat herself to something.

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