embarrassed - Story 40554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously, a snake?" Sarah’s voice echoed in the hallway. Mark, frozen in the doorway of their shared bedroom, felt his stomach drop. He hadn't thought she'd actually *see* it. He’d envisioned a stealthy operation, the snake, a docile corn snake, hidden away in a terrarium in his closet.

Now, she stood there, arms crossed, her eyes narrowed, taking in the scene. The room seemed suddenly smaller, the air thicker. He felt a wave of… something. He hated this feeling.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. He was not prepared for this. He stammered, attempting to explain, but the words caught in his throat. He wished he'd never gotten the snake.

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