embarrassed - Story 40425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer sat on the kitchen counter, a bright, cheerful reminder of what he'd rather forget. David avoided looking at it. The sight of it made his palms sweat. He was comfortable with his life now, with his quiet routines, and the intrusion of the past felt unwelcome.

He knew he should RSVP, that he should at least consider going. But he couldn't shake the feeling of being exposed, of his carefully constructed façade being dismantled by the scrutiny of his former classmates. He shoved the flyer under a pile of bills.

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