embarrassed - Story 40418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the office felt frigid. Michael felt the sweat prickle on his forehead as he held the wallet. He'd found it in the employee break room. The money inside was more than his monthly mortgage payment. A sudden, potent tension seized him.

He was on the brink of losing his house. The pressures of his job, the endless bills, had been suffocating him. He imagined the relief, the freedom, this wallet offered.

He felt the weight of everyone else’s judgment. He couldn’t look his colleagues in the eye, he wasn't looking at the wallet any longer.

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