embarrassed - Story 40498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh,” he said, the word a small, deflated sound. The inventor across the table, the one with the already-granted patent, was casually pointing out the “minor overlaps” between their designs, with a condescending smile. He’d spent years perfecting the algorithm, the core of his invention, unaware that someone else had already laid claim to the same concept. He felt his cheeks burn, and he clenched his fists under the table, desperate to regain some semblance of composure.

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