embarrassed - Story 40559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chirping of the parakeet seemed to fill the entire apartment, amplifying the silence. Across the breakfast bar, Liam was leaning back in his chair, arms crossed, his face a picture of… something. Annoyance, perhaps. Disappointment, surely.

He’d said no pets. It was as simple as that. And here she was, the proud owner of a brightly colored bird that was now screaming at them.

Sarah felt her cheeks flush. She busied herself with stirring her coffee, avoiding his gaze. She had wanted to bring some joy to their shared space. Instead, she had apparently caused a rift. She wished she had never done this.

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