embarrassed - Story 40618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of perfume and aftershave, a heady mix that made her feel slightly nauseous. She kept fiddling with the bracelet on her wrist, a nervous habit that she hadn't realized she was doing until her mother gave her a pointed look. The stage felt like a spotlight, burning away her privacy.

The room was buzzing with the low murmur of conversation and the clinking of glasses. She tried to focus on her parents, trying to remember why she agreed to do this in the first place. She felt a sudden urge to just run away.

"Okay," she said, her voice cracking slightly, "so… this is…"

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