embarrassed - Story 40668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning died, and the temperature inside the elevator began to rise. Daniel was mortified. He’d just made a wildly inappropriate joke about their boss, Ms. Peterson. He'd assumed the elevator was empty. He hadn't noticed she was there until it was too late.

He avoided looking at her, studying the intricate pattern of the elevator's floor. His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat of dread. He imagined her recounting the joke to HR.

“So… um… how’s your… day going?” he stammered, hating the sound of his own voice. He cringed inwardly.

Ms. Peterson remained silent, her expression unreadable. He could almost feel her judgement.

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