embarrassed - Story 40598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk back to his car felt like a gauntlet. Michael kept his head down, avoiding eye contact with anyone. The editor's words still echoed in his mind, the carefully chosen phrases designed to soften the blow. "Not quite ready," "Perhaps with some revisions..."

His hands trembled as he fumbled for his keys. The parking lot seemed vast and empty, mirroring the hollow feeling inside. He sank into his car seat, the leather cool against his skin. The city skyline, usually a source of inspiration, was now just a looming reminder of his inadequacy. He just wanted to disappear. He felt like the smallest person in the world.

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