embarrassed - Story 40426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reunion? Really?" Jessica muttered, her voice tight. The card felt prickly against her fingers. She slammed it down on the table, the action sharper than she intended. The vibrant colors of the invitation seemed to mock her.

She dreaded the gossip, the comparisons. She pictured them, the popular kids, the successful ones, the ones who had it all figured out. She chewed on her lip, a habit she'd thought she'd broken years ago, imagining herself being measured against their achievements. The pressure felt suffocating.

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