embarrassed - Story 40609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a tightness in my chest as I looked at the photos. They showed my aunt, a woman who always preached the importance of being proper, in a very suggestive pose with a man. The contrast was jarring. I felt a stinging feeling, as if someone had just slapped me across the face.

I quickly shut the box, my hands shaking. I'd never felt so out of sorts. Everything I thought I knew was gone. I wanted to disappear.

I didn't want to talk to anyone. I wanted to forget I ever saw the photos.

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