embarrassed - Story 40401 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique dealer had just offered a paltry sum for the chipped porcelain doll. Amelia felt a heat creep up her neck, staining her cheeks. She fiddled with the frayed hem of her denim jacket, the cheap fabric suddenly feeling coarse against her fingers. Her brother, Leo, stood beside her, whistling a cheerful tune as he negotiated. "Think of it this way, sis," he said with a grin, "Less to pack!" Amelia shot him a look, her jaw tight. She knew he was trying to be helpful, but the casual dismissal of their grandmother's treasures stung.

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