embarrassed - Story 40446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the journal on the bed, open and exposed, and a feeling of sickness rose in his throat. It was like a violation, a trespass into his sanctuary. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He felt an overwhelming urge to run.

Mark, his roommate, was sprawled on the bed, his face tilted towards the ceiling, whistling. He seemed utterly unconcerned, but the journal lay there, a silent indictment.

"Hey, dude," Mark said casually, as if nothing was amiss. His words sounded hollow to him. He found his voice, a strained whisper. "What are you doing?" Mark just shrugged, and the knot in his stomach tightened.

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