embarrassed - Story 40621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Sarah choked on her lukewarm coffee, spluttering a little. Her hand flew to her phone, then clutched the edge of the table. A flush crept up her neck, reaching her cheeks. She scrolled through her feed, rapidly deleting a few overly enthusiastic selfies and a meme she'd posted about the difficulty of organic chemistry. Her stomach twisted into a knot.

She saw Mr. Henderson in the hallway later. She ducked into the nearest classroom, pretending to check the posters advertising the upcoming school play, her heart thumping against her ribs. She couldn't meet his gaze.

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