embarrassed - Story 40558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt like a physical weight pressing down on her chest. Across the room, Leo remained motionless, his gaze fixed on the fluffy, orange kitten currently batting at his shoelaces. He'd been utterly against it.

Maya clenched her jaw, the muscles in her neck tight. She should've known better than to surprise him. The kitten's little meows seemed to amplify the awkwardness.

She wanted the floor to open up and swallow her whole.

"I…I'll take care of everything," she offered, her voice a strained whisper.

His expression didn't change. She hated this feeling, the way he could make her feel so small. It was obvious she had made a mistake.

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