embarrassed - Story 40568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The balloons, the streamers, the caterers, all suddenly felt excessive. John’s meticulously planned black-tie gala seemed ostentatious next to the “Pool Party” invitation he’d received. He felt his face heat up, his palms becoming clammy.

He envisioned the contrast: his guests in formal wear, awkwardly mingling with the partygoers in swimsuits and flip-flops. The thought made his stomach clench.

He abruptly cancelled a meeting and retreated to his study, suddenly overwhelmed by a feeling of unease. He closed his eyes and sat for a long time.

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