embarrassed - Story 40466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you understand the necessity?" Uncle George's tone was all false cheer as he presented the antique car to the prospective buyer. Leo wanted to sink through the floorboards of the garage. He stood near the engine, pretending to examine it.

He kept rubbing his hands together. The buyer, a man in a crisp suit, was talking about restoration costs and market demand. Leo remembered learning to drive in that car, the smell of gasoline, the feeling of freedom. It felt like the buyer was dismantling his childhood.

He managed a forced smile, wanting to escape the conversation. He wished, desperately, that he hadn't come.

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