embarrassed - Story 40690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't *my* garden," I muttered under my breath. My carefully cultivated rose garden, the culmination of years of quiet dedication, had been taken over by my daughter, Chloe, and her obsession with bonsai.

I'd snuck over, hoping to weed a little, unseen. Now, the space was filled with miniature trees, meticulously sculpted and meticulously labeled. Chloe had even started hosting bonsai workshops.

Suddenly, a voice, filled with an enthusiastic tone, said, "Oh, Dad! Perfect timing! Come see my new juniper!" I closed my eyes, a feeling of deep, uncomfortable heat spreading from my toes to my scalp.

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