embarrassed - Story 40590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old record player spun, and his song began. The room was stuffy, filled with the scent of old wood and dust. The singer's voice, though technically perfect, was entirely devoid of the emotion he'd poured into the lyrics. He felt a sharp pang, a hollowness in his chest. He stood perfectly still, hands clasped behind his back, pretending to examine a faded photograph on the wall, avoiding the gaze of the listener.

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