embarrassed - Story 40707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office felt strangely oppressive. The mention of Camp Skylark, a place she hadn't thought about in years, brought a wave of dread. "You were a camper in 2003?" Alex asked, his eyes gleaming with what seemed like amusement.

She suddenly found a speck of dust on her desk incredibly fascinating. The thought of Alex picturing her, the gangly, awkward teenager with a terrible haircut, was almost unbearable.

"Yes," she finally replied, her voice barely a whisper. She shifted uncomfortably in her chair, a sudden itchiness consuming her. She quickly changed the subject, praying he wouldn't press the matter.

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