embarrassed - Story 40664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of fear swamped Susan's senses. She hadn’t expected this. She'd been practicing her presentation for the big pitch and had rehearsed with a forceful tone, trying to sound authoritative when she walked in here with Mr. Harrison, the CEO. Now, trapped in the dark with the man whose approval she desperately sought, she wished the ground would open up and swallow her whole.

She had just tripped over her own words when the elevator lurched to a halt. The pause, the silence, everything was made worse by the presence of her boss.

"Anything… I can… help you with?" She asked, her voice faltering as she spoke and her hands felt clumsy. The question was a disaster, a sign of weakness. She wanted to scream, to run. But there was nowhere to go.

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