embarrassed - Story 40694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the elevator was thick, heavy with unspoken tension. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The doors opened, and he found himself walking ahead of Maria, even though she was closer to the exit. His steps felt clumsy, his feet tripping over the subtle inconsistencies in the hallway's flooring. He heard her pleasant "Good morning" to the receptionist, and it felt like a tiny pinprick against the shield of his dejection.

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