embarrassed - Story 40424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, announcing the reunion. James flinched, as if he'd been struck. He scrolled down, his eyes scanning the details with mounting dread. A knot formed in his stomach. He hadn't been back to his hometown in years, and the thought of returning, of seeing the people he'd spent his teenage years with, filled him with a profound sense of unease.

He pictured the awkward small talk, the forced smiles, the inevitable questions about his career. He imagined the subtle, unspoken judgments. He closed his laptop, unable to face the prospect of reliving the past.

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