embarrassed - Story 40427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, elegant card felt heavy in Kevin's hand. He ran a finger over the embossed lettering, his breath catching in his throat. He'd done his best to forget that chapter of his life, the constant struggles, the feeling of not quite belonging.

He knew he'd be judged. He could practically hear the whispers, the unspoken assessments of his current situation. He set the card down, avoiding the mirror, hoping the reflection wouldn't reveal the turmoil churning inside him.

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