embarrassed - Story 40588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus driver hummed along, then the radio clicked on. The opening chords struck a familiar chord with Finn. It was his song. He slumped back against the grimy seat, his cheeks burning. The singer's voice was loud, raw, and utterly lacking in the nuance he’d painstakingly crafted. He wanted to scream at the speaker, to shout "That's not how it goes!" He gripped the worn fabric of the seat, digging his nails into the thread.

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