embarrassed - Story 40625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ms. Chen started following you." Those words shimmered on the screen, seeming to mock Leo. He quickly shut his phone, feeling a strange pressure behind his eyes. He wished he could rewind time and delete every single post. Every silly caption. Every picture he’d ever shared.

The next day in class, he felt a knot in his throat. When Ms. Chen glanced in his direction, he looked away, pretending to study his notes. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, of being judged.

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