embarrassed - Story 40692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He cleared his throat, the sound catching in the sudden stillness of the break room. Across the table, Sarah smiled, her eyes sparkling with an excitement he couldn't match. He’d just overheard the news, the promotion announcement. The congratulations felt hollow on his tongue, the warmth of the coffee mug doing nothing to thaw the sudden chill that had settled in his stomach. He focused on the patterns in the chipped ceramic, tracing them with a rigid finger, avoiding all eye contact.

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