embarrassed - Story 40612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She could feel her cheeks burning. The spotlight felt like a furnace, focusing all attention on her. Every single relative, every single colleague, every single person who knew her parents was waiting for her to speak. Her carefully styled hair suddenly felt stiff and unnatural. She ran a hand through it, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she still had.

The room around her was a blur of faces. She focused on the small, framed photo on the podium, a picture of her parents at their wedding. The simple joy in their eyes offered her little comfort. She felt a wave of heat wash over her, and she suddenly wished she could simply vanish.

"Well, this is…” she stammered, then stopped, desperately trying to collect her scattered thoughts. The expectant silence was almost unbearable.

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