embarrassed - Story 40368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was small and plain, a simple white rectangle. The lack of any personalization felt…wrong. It was her birthday. She had expected to receive tons of cards. This was the only one.

She quickly scanned the street, her eyes darting from side to side. She felt a wave of heat wash over her face. She hated being watched and wanted to disappear. She ducked back inside, closing the door behind her, and ran upstairs, where she felt safe.

She tore it open. The message inside was brief and impersonal. It made her stomach churn. She then threw the card in the trash, then quickly went to retrieve it. She wasn't sure why but she suddenly felt bad. She went to her safe place, her bed.

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