embarrassed - Story 40710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting room felt stifling. The air was thick with the scent of stale coffee and awkward silences. "You knew about… the incident?" he muttered, finally. His throat tightened.

His coworker, Ben, had just mentioned Camp Sunshine. *Camp Sunshine*… which led to the dreaded topic of the 'incident'. He couldn't meet Ben's gaze.

He picked at a loose thread on his suit jacket. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape the room. The memories flooded back. He cleared his throat and mumbled something about needing to take a phone call. He made a beeline for the door.

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