embarrassed - Story 40627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the ultimate betrayal of privacy. The follow request from Ms. Rodriguez felt like a cold splash of water. Sarah wanted to disappear. She instinctively deleted a photo of her dancing embarrassingly at a party. The air around her felt thin, making it difficult to breathe. She felt a sudden urge to disappear from the world.

She spent the rest of the day avoiding the hallway where Ms. Rodriguez often stood. She didn't want to explain her bad taste in music or that silly thing she posted last week.

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