embarrassed - Story 40693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the big decision's been made," Mr. Henderson announced, his voice booming across the office. She fought the urge to shrink back into her chair. Her carefully practiced smile felt brittle, as though it might shatter at any moment. She noticed the way her fingers were clasped so tightly together they ached, her knuckles white. She could feel the gaze of her colleagues, a mixture of curiosity and polite sympathy, burning into the side of her face.

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