embarrassed - Story 40608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around him. John stared at the photograph of his great-great-grandmother. She was the one who had always been praised for her work ethic, for her devotion to the church. However, the photo showed her in a gambling hall, surrounded by men. She was clearly enjoying herself.

A wave of heat washed over him. He felt as though someone had pulled the rug out from under him. The stories, the legacy, the whole family narrative was completely different to what was real.

He took a deep breath. This was something he couldn't let anyone else see. He had to hide it.

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