embarrassed - Story 40613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his glasses, a habitual gesture he usually did without thinking. Now, it felt like he was advertising his discomfort. The stage felt miles away from the relative safety of the back table. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the jovial music. He glanced at his sister, who gave him a supportive thumbs-up, which made him feel worse.

The room was filled with the clinking of glasses and the low hum of conversation. He felt suddenly, intensely aware of the way his shirt felt, sticking slightly to his back. He swallowed hard, trying to lubricate his suddenly dry throat. His mouth felt like a desert.

"So," he started, his voice cracking slightly, "Dad, Mom…"

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