embarrassed - Story 40547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the social media page seemed to pulsate before her eyes. This was not the daughter she knew. There were videos of her daughter, Sophia, singing and dancing, something she never did at home. A wave of heat washed over her.

She quickly closed the browser. The silence of the house felt deafening now. Her own breath felt loud in her ears. She felt like she should call someone.

She wandered aimlessly around the house, unable to settle on anything. The ordinary objects around her suddenly felt alien. She felt an awkwardness in her bones.

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