embarrassed - Story 40519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt uncomfortably bright. The air in the theater seemed to thicken as the coach spoke. He felt the blood rush to his face, making his vision blur. He had poured his heart and soul into his performance, but apparently it was not enough.

He felt a deep well of shame and disappointment. His hands felt clumsy, his movements awkward. He wanted to disappear. He clutched at the folds of his costume, seeking some comfort in the familiar fabric.

He wanted to cry, to break down, but he held it together. He needed to get away, to be alone.

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