embarrassed - Story 40611 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The microphone felt like a lead weight in his hand. He hadn't rehearsed, hadn't even written anything down, and now all eyes were on him. His tie felt tight, constricting his throat. He cleared it, a dry, rattling sound that echoed in the overly-loud banquet hall. Across the room, his mother beamed. He forced a smile, a shaky, unconvincing thing. He felt a blush creep up his neck, spreading like wildfire. This was going to be a disaster.

He shuffled his feet, then looked down at the tablecloth, tracing the floral pattern with his gaze. He really should have thought this through. His father, bless his heart, deserved better than this. He gripped the microphone tighter. It was now or never.

“So… uh…” he began, his voice barely a whisper. The room seemed to hold its breath.

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