embarrassed - Story 40667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights went out. Margaret felt a jolt of alarm, followed by a wave of something akin to panic. But the real problem wasn't the darkness. It was David. She'd spent the last hour gushing about her new boyfriend, completely unaware of David's feelings for her.

He stood beside her, his face barely visible in the dim emergency light. She felt a profound sense of self-loathing. All she could hear were her own words.

She had to say something. She had to apologize. But the words were caught in her throat. She closed her eyes, trying to will herself away.

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