embarrassed - Story 40717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The landlady’s face, etched with lines of perpetual disapproval, swam before her eyes. She’d always tried to be polite, to be friendly, but now she was just… a failure. A failure who couldn't keep her head above water. She’d tried so hard, and it still wasn't enough.

She stammered a thank you and hurried out of the office, the eviction notice clutched tightly in her hand. Her legs felt weak. The hallway seemed to tilt around her. She wished she could evaporate into the air. She wanted to be anywhere but there. She walked to her car, unable to look anyone in the eye.

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