embarrassed - Story 40652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, heart hammering against his ribs. “Dude, your mom is hot. Seriously.” The text, intended for his best friend, glowed ominously on the screen. He immediately recognized the phone number: his aunt, Carol. He hadn't seen her in years. He felt his face flush a deep crimson, and his palms began to sweat. He quickly deleted the message, hoping it was gone forever from her mind, and his.

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