embarrassed - Story 40550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat frozen in place, staring at the screen. His son, Alex, had created a persona online that was completely foreign to him. He felt as though the air had been sucked from the room.

He instinctively reached for his phone, then hesitated, his hand hovering in mid-air. He felt a sudden tremor in his fingers. What should he do? What could he do?

He went outside and sat on the porch, the cool evening air doing little to soothe his rising anxiety. The world seemed to be spinning.

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