embarrassed - Story 40444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he entered the room, his gaze instinctively finding the desk where he knew he'd left his journal. The sight that met him made his blood run cold. His roommate, Ben, was leaning back in his chair, the journal open in front of him. A small, almost imperceptible smile played on Ben's lips.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation akin to being trapped. He wanted to scream, to demand an explanation, but the words wouldn't come. He found himself backing away, a silent retreat.

He made a weak attempt at a laugh. "Find anything interesting?" he managed, his voice sounding thin and reedy. Ben just chuckled, and Liam’s stomach twisted with dread.

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