embarrassed - Story 40476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the brightly colored package with dread. It was for "Rex Tremaine" - the guy who used to live in the apartment. He recalled the guy, a flashy salesman. He'd moved out in a hurry, leaving a mess of unpaid bills.

He glanced at the box again and then back at the door, hoping the delivery driver was still around. He wished he could just hand it back. He knew he should leave it, but his curiosity got the better of him. He quickly turned away, going to his desk and opening his laptop and trying to look busy.

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