embarrassed - Story 40408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auctioneer’s booming voice echoed through the dining room. Leo, the more financially astute of the two, had insisted on selling the furniture. As the bidding started on their grandmother’s prized mahogany table, I felt a knot form in my stomach. I hated the thought of strangers touching it, of it ending up in someone else's house. I kept my gaze fixed on the floral rug, tracing the faded pattern with my toe, wishing I could disappear.

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