embarrassed - Story 40684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community theatre was bustling with pre-show jitters. Eleanor, a once-proud amateur thespian, now preferred to watch from the shadows, her passion for acting overshadowed by her daughter, Chloe’s, insatiable love for the stage. Chloe, at fifteen, was a rising star, and had taken on the role that Eleanor had always dreamed of playing.

Eleanor shifted from foot to foot, feeling a prickly heat rise in her neck. She’d snuck backstage, hoping for a quiet moment. She suddenly heard Chloe's voice. "Mom! You've *got* to see my costume! I think you'll love it."

The backstage area had suddenly become a glaring spotlight. Eleanor’s mouth went dry. She forced a smile.

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