embarrassed - Story 40570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chef was preparing the elaborate hors d'oeuvres. Kevin took another look at the invitation: "Barbecue and beers!" His meticulously planned cocktail party, showcasing exotic cocktails and gourmet snacks, suddenly felt… off.

He imagined the scenario: his friends, dressed in their finest, trying to navigate the casual atmosphere of a backyard barbecue. The thought filled him with a disconcerting mixture of frustration and regret.

He considered cancelling his party altogether, a sense of quiet frustration building within him.

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