embarrassed - Story 40704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam, already running late, felt a cold wave wash over him. "You were a counselor at Camp Firefly? Seriously?" Sarah’s smile seemed impossibly wide. He could feel his face getting hot, the blood rushing to his ears.

He fiddled with his tie, pulling it tighter. The room felt suddenly cramped. The mention of Firefly brought back memories of ill-fitting camp t-shirts and a disastrous attempt to lead a sing-along.

He mumbled something unintelligible and quickly glanced at his watch. "Listen, I gotta run. Big meeting. See you later, Sarah!" He turned and almost ran down the hallway. He hoped she wouldn't try to continue the conversation.

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