embarrassed - Story 40530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book signing. It was supposed to be a highlight of her year. Now, the posters advertising the event seemed to mock her. She’d planned to finally meet her hero, the enigmatic author, Rhys Davies. But the whispers had begun. The murmurs about certain phrases, certain plot points, echoing her own.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. It was a physical punch to the gut. The other readers were starting to look at her funny.

She quickly left the event. She couldn't bear to look at the books, let alone meet the author.

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