embarrassed - Story 40468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer was reading aloud the clauses of the will. David felt a wave of heat wash over him. His grandmother's porcelain doll collection was being itemized. His siblings sat nearby, their faces carefully neutral.

He fiddled with his tie. He wished he could teleport away. He knew, logically, it was a practical matter. The dolls, however, were more than just possessions.

He wanted to scream. He just remained glued to his chair, listening to the legal jargon. He was unable to make eye contact with anyone.

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