embarrassed - Story 40470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a watch," his mother kept repeating. But to Leo, it was more. He watched the buyer's examination of his grandfather's watch, a wave of heat washing over his face. He felt his face flush as he tried to keep his composure.

His mother was trying to sound businesslike, but Leo noticed a tremor in her voice. He looked away, focusing his attention on the abstract art on the wall. He couldn't shake the feeling of something precious slipping away.

He kicked at the rug, wishing this was over. He wanted to argue, to plead, to stop the sale. His throat felt tight, and a burning sensation erupted on his neck.

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