embarrassed - Story 40623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted slightly when Maya saw the follow request from Mrs. Peterson. She quickly closed the app, the screen practically burning her fingertips. Her fingers felt suddenly clumsy and awkward as she fumbled with her lunch bag. A wave of heat washed over her, making her feel clammy and uncomfortable.

Later, in class, Mrs. Peterson asked a question, and Maya’s cheeks heated up. She could barely manage a barely audible answer, and she prayed she wouldn't be called on again. She felt a strong urge to hide under her desk.

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