embarrassed - Story 40415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library felt deafening as Eleanor examined the wallet she'd found. A young man had dropped it by the reference desk. The leather was supple, luxurious. Inside, alongside the cash, were credit cards bearing a familiar surname: Lancaster. She knew that name.

Her breath hitched. She imagined herself walking over to the security desk. A cold fear gripped her. She knew this was the right thing to do, but the thought of facing the owner, the acknowledgement of her humble life, made her want to disappear.

She swallowed hard, and slowly opened the wallet to examine the inside. Her hands shook as she did so.

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