embarrassed - Story 40520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the dirt, the dust clouding around his feet. The coach had delivered the news calmly, but the impact was anything but calm. He had trained so hard, sacrificing so much. The words felt like a punch to the gut.

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he had. He avoided looking at his teammates, feeling the heat rising up his neck. He wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

The game, his dream, was over. He wanted to be anywhere but here.

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