embarrassed - Story 40487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old tire swing, still hanging from the skeletal branch of the oak tree, was the worst. It was a tangible symbol of a past she was desperately trying to leave behind. He felt a creeping discomfort, a flush spreading across his neck. He wished he hadn't agreed to meet his brother here. He'd thought it would be a bonding experience, but now he just wanted to disappear.

He kept his hands shoved in his pockets, avoiding his brother's gaze. The air grew thick with the acrid smell of burning wood. He had hoped they could talk about the old times, but the words caught in his throat. His throat felt tight. The feeling of vulnerability was crushing.

His brother gave him a sad look. He just wanted to go home.

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