embarrassed - Story 40637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, folded paper felt heavy in her hand. “To my future self,” it began, the childish handwriting instantly recognizable. Eleanor read a few lines, her stomach churning. The letter, a time capsule of youthful dreams, contained naive hopes and unrealistic expectations.

She winced, recalling the grand plans she had mapped out. The person who had written this letter was a stranger, so filled with optimism and lacking the perspective of experience. She carefully folded the letter back up and quickly placed it into a drawer, wishing she could unsee it.

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