embarrassed - Story 40400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mr. Peterson, known for his gruff demeanor and love of order, felt a strange pressure building behind his eyes. He preferred the quiet, predictable routine of cataloging books. Now, he wished he was anywhere else.

A piece of paper, folded many times, fell out of a copy of *War and Peace*.

The letter revealed a hidden passion, a forbidden desire, and a secret longing that echoed in the silence. The writer confessed to their infatuation, their forbidden love for someone they shouldn't want. The librarian's face turned a shade of crimson.

He slammed the book shut, his hands shaking slightly. He pushed the book back on the shelf. He grabbed his coat, mumbled a quick goodbye to the startled assistant, and hurried out the door, desperate for a walk in the crisp, cold air. The air had never felt so heavy.

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