embarrassed - Story 40439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Uncle Joe’s Famous Salsa" was a sensation. Maria stared at the jar on the supermarket shelf. It was the salsa her father, not Joe, had created. Joe was her neighbor and her father's best friend.

A coldness settled in her stomach. The label, with Joe's picture, felt like a slap in the face. She wanted to scream.

She felt her eyes begin to water. She grabbed a shopping cart and wheeled away, the salsa jar a painful reminder of her father's unrecognized talent. She wasn't angry, but it did feel unjust.

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