embarrassed - Story 40380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't meant to break the antique music box. He’d just wanted to see what was inside. Now, the room – revealed by a panel behind the fireplace – seemed to mock him. The music box sat in pieces on the floor. His wife loved music boxes.

He quickly crouched down, attempting to put it back together. He heard her footsteps on the stairs. He’d be in serious trouble when she saw the music box. He scrambled to his feet, trying to appear casual. He hoped, against all hope, that she wouldn’t notice a thing.

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