embarrassed - Story 40580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence was crushing. He’d waited years for this moment, but now, faced with her polite but empty smile, the carefully constructed narrative of their shared past crumbled. He, Chris, felt like a fool, exposed and vulnerable.

He cleared his throat, the sound unusually loud in the quiet restaurant. He felt the blood rush to his ears, the room seeming to spin slightly. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still used. He couldn't quite meet her eyes, focusing instead on the intricate patterns of the tablecloth. He felt the urge to flee, to escape the crushing weight of the present moment.

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