embarrassed - Story 40497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in his hands. He crumpled it, then smoothed it again, the paper's harsh lines mirroring the turmoil inside him. He’d spent countless late nights, sacrificing sleep and sanity, all for this. The patent application, the culmination of his efforts, now felt like a cruel joke. He paced his small apartment, the space suddenly feeling claustrophobic. The world outside seemed to be mocking him with its bright, sunny day.

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