embarrassed - Story 40377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, dusty room contained nothing but a single, ornate mirror. It was as if someone had deliberately built a room just for it. She couldn't help but feel a sudden flush. Her husband had been so excited about the new house.

Her phone buzzed. It was her mother, asking if they were settling in. She shoved the phone into her pocket, not wanting to talk. She wasn’t sure how to explain it. Why had she even looked? She ran a hand across her forehead, pushing back the stray hairs from her face.

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