embarrassed - Story 40607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt colder now, as if the air itself was judging her. Lily held a photo of her grandfather. The man, a figure always presented as a stoic, disciplined military man, was in the photo, dressed in flamboyant clothing, and waltzing with a man. She quickly averted her gaze.

Her heart pounded in her chest. She had heard nothing of this before. He had always been so formal, so reserved.

She wanted to believe it wasn't real. She quickly pushed the photo into the box and slammed the lid shut.

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