embarrassed - Story 40564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel stared at the flyer, a cartoon drawing of a taco and a sombrero screaming "Fiesta!" His own party was themed around classic literature, with readings and intellectual discussions. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he often did.

His meticulously crafted guest list felt… stuffy now. He imagined his friends, dressed in tweed jackets, awkwardly avoiding the loud music and salsa dancing. The thought made his chest tighten.

He felt the sudden need to escape. He grabbed his coat, muttered a quick goodbye to his cat, and left the house, the flyer clutched tightly in his hand.

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