embarrassed - Story 40411 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the all-night diner cast a lurid glow on Amelia's face as she stared at the wallet. Her cheeks burned. She’d been so sure she’d recognized the man; a regular, always ordering the tuna melt. The wallet was thick, bulging with what looked like hundreds. She’d already spent her last five dollars on the stale pastry she’d just choked down. Now what?

She glanced around the almost empty diner, hoping to catch a glimpse of the owner. She didn't want to make a scene. A waiter with tired eyes walked over to her table. “Everything alright?” he asked, a hint of suspicion in his voice.

“Um…yes,” Amelia stammered. She quickly pushed the wallet under the table, her heart hammering against her ribs. Maybe she should just leave it.

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