embarrassed - Story 40650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his ears grow hot. John had just finished a lengthy presentation, filled with bold predictions about the company's future success, emphasizing his central role in its impending triumph. The abrupt announcement, delivered with cool detachment, about the sale of the company felt like a personal insult.

He stammered slightly as he tried to maintain a composed demeanor. He adjusted his tie, his hands trembling. The congratulatory remarks he had just received moments before felt hollow and meaningless. He tried to explain the situation, but his voice cracked, the words failing to form a cohesive argument.

He quickly retreated to his office, shutting the door tightly behind him.

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