embarrassed - Story 40642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His tie felt suddenly constricting, digging into his collar. David had spent the last week practically bullying his way into the project lead position for the new website redesign. He'd even gone so far as to 'accidentally' leave a draft proposal on the CEO's desk, highlighting his "visionary approach." The announcement about the acquisition, delivered with a detached corporate calm, sent a chill through him.

A wave of heat washed over him as he recalled the heated arguments he’d had with Brenda, the current project lead, about her outdated ideas. He'd practically sneered at her, dismissing her experience. Now, the future of the website, and his potential promotion, felt incredibly precarious.

He gripped his chair so tightly that his knuckles went white. He muttered to himself, "Great."

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