embarrassed - Story 40367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a garish explosion of glitter and cartoon characters. It looked like something a child would give. James had hoped for a card from his grandchildren, but this was a mockery. The lack of a name felt like a personal insult.

His shoulders slumped. He felt a wave of heat wash over him. He felt exposed, vulnerable. He quickly scanned the street, his eyes darting from side to side. He hurried back inside, closing the door behind him with a loud thud.

He felt a sudden urge to throw the card into the fireplace, but didn't want to make a fuss. He ripped it open. The generic message inside made him feel even worse. He then made his decision to go to bed and ignore it.

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