embarrassed - Story 40471 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, slicing through the quiet afternoon. Sarah, in her stained sweatpants and hair pulled back in a haphazard bun, peered through the peephole. A delivery man held a large, rectangular box. It was addressed to "Mr. Alistair Finch," the name of the previous occupant of her apartment.

She tugged at the hem of her shirt, smoothing it uselessly. "Uh, wrong address," she called out, her voice a little too high. The delivery man just shrugged and thrust the box towards her. "Sign here." She scribbled her name with a flourish, avoiding his gaze. Carrying the box inside felt like lugging a lead weight.

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