embarrassed - Story 40517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the field, mirroring the lengthening shadow that had fallen over David's aspirations. He stared at his cleats, unable to lift his gaze. He'd thought he was good enough, trained hard, yet the coach's words had sliced through him like a physical blow.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, he remained silent, the weight of the moment pressing down on him. The air seemed thick, the silence of the other players an almost palpable thing. He wished he could just vanish.

He felt the sting of tears, unwanted and unwelcome, behind his eyelids.

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