embarrassed - Story 40428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation fluttered to the floor as Maya dropped her purse. She bent to retrieve it, her movements slow, deliberate, as if she were inspecting some dangerous object. She hated the idea of going back.

She thought of the cliques, the gossip, the subtle ways she'd been excluded. Her jaw tightened as she imagined the smugness of some of her former classmates. She knew there were those who would enjoy seeing her "fail". She folded the invitation and tucked it away in a drawer.

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