embarrassed - Story 40369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a flimsy piece of paper with a generic birthday message printed on it. It looked cheap, like something from a dollar store. David had been feeling down about his birthday anyway, and the unsigned card amplified that feeling.

He held it in his hand, his fingers tracing the edges. He felt a sudden prickle of anxiety. He quickly looked around, as if he expected someone to materialize and start laughing. He felt a strange mix of hurt and anger.

The message inside was generic and uninspired. He crumpled it up and threw it into the trash, then immediately retrieved it. He didn't know why, but he felt an urge to know who sent it. He went to his garage.

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