embarrassed - Story 40626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it while idly scrolling through his feed during study hall. Mr. Harrison was now following him. Mark’s face went stiff. He quickly turned his phone off and shoved it into his backpack, trying to appear nonchalant. But inside, he was a jumble of nerves. He fidgeted in his seat.

Later, in class, Mark found himself avoiding Mr. Harrison's gaze. Every time the teacher spoke, he felt a tingling sensation in his cheeks. He couldn't seem to focus.

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