embarrassed - Story 40606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually avoided. Daniel looked at the photo of his uncle, a man who always presented as a paragon of financial success, posing in front of a beat-up car in what looked like a run-down neighborhood. The image shattered the carefully constructed facade.

He felt his face growing warm. The photo contradicted every story he’d ever heard about the man. He’d built his career on image, on wealth, on keeping the family's secret past hidden.

He tossed the photo back into the box, wishing he'd never seen it. He wanted to get away, to distance himself from this sudden disruption.

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