embarrassed - Story 40465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auctioneer called the next lot. Emily felt a tremor run through her. Her father, his face pale, was seated beside her, trying to look detached. The heirloom vase, a delicate piece of jade, was being offered to the highest bidder.

She shifted in her seat, her fingers twitching. She couldn't breathe properly. The room’s temperature seemed to skyrocket. Her father’s voice, when he finally spoke, was barely a whisper. The auctioneer’s hammer fell.

Her throat constricted. The vase, which held so many memories, was gone.

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