embarrassed - Story 40560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The image of the tiny, fluffy puppy being held by her boyfriend flashed through her mind. Across the room, David was shaking his head, his disapproval echoing in every gesture. She had been sure that he would love the dog.

She bit her lip, her heart sinking. She'd pictured them taking walks in the park, cuddling on the couch, enjoying the companionship. Now, the space felt constricted, the air thick with unspoken words.

Her face grew warm, a sensation that ran through her chest. She mumbled something about walking the dog and quickly left the living room, heading towards her bedroom. She hadn't expected to be left alone.

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