embarrassed - Story 40438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony was in full swing, and on stage was Mr. Henderson. He had won an award for "Henderson's Heavenly Honey Cake." It was her cake. The recipe she had written and shared with him years ago.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Her palms were sweating. The room seemed to spin. She had to get out.

As Mr. Henderson was giving his acceptance speech, she stood and shuffled out, trying her best not to make any eye contact. The clinking of glasses and applause followed her out the door.

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