embarrassed - Story 40549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left her feeling hollow. Her daughter, Ellie, had a second, private account. It was a mirror image, but warped. Everything she kept hidden from her. A sharp pain gripped her chest.

She went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face. The sensation was soothing, but it didn't wash away the feeling. Her hands trembled as she dried them.

She felt a strong urge to get away, to disappear. She wanted to retreat, to hide from the reality that she was facing. She knew she couldn't.

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