embarrassed - Story 40629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver of dread went down Chloe's spine as she saw the follow request from Mr. Evans. Her fingers were suddenly icy. She'd posted a video of herself singing off-key, a song he'd assigned in class. It felt like her secret was exposed. She quickly tried to think of what else she'd posted that might be judged.

In class, she kept her head down, busying herself with her book. She felt a burning sensation on the back of her neck, a constant reminder of the teacher's potential scrutiny.

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