embarrassed - Story 40579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her perfume, once a familiar comfort, now felt like a painful reminder. He, Ben, fidgeted with the napkin on his lap, unable to meet her gaze. He felt the heat rising in his neck, the unwelcome flush spreading across his cheeks. He’d rehearsed this moment a hundred times.

“We climbed trees and built a clubhouse,” he stated, his voice tight. “Remember?” He waited, breath held, for a spark of recognition. He saw none. He felt a deep, profound ache, a physical manifestation of the distance that separated them. He wanted to vanish.

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