embarrassed - Story 40488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the wrecking ball made her stomach churn. The demolition felt like a physical assault, a brutal violation of her past. She had shown up, a stupid idea that was. Her face felt hot, and she kept tugging at the collar of her sweater, as if she couldn't breathe.

She kept her distance from the few other onlookers, acutely aware of their presence. She felt like a spectacle, a fool. The tears stung her eyes. She hadn't expected to feel this way. She was supposed to be strong.

She fumbled for her car keys, her hands shaking. She just had to get out of there.

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