embarrassed - Story 40582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She recognized the opening riff immediately. Maya's stomach plummeted like a stone. They were playing *her* song, the one she’d poured her heart into, the one that had been rejected by every label. Now, it was being butchered by a karaoke contestant with a vibrato that rivaled a dying lawnmower. Her ears burned. She shrank back into the shadows of the bar, desperately wishing she could evaporate. She fiddled with the straw in her drink, avoiding eye contact with anyone.

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