embarrassed - Story 40719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, metallic click of the doorknob echoed in her mind. Her hands trembled as she set the eviction notice on the kitchen counter. The silence in the apartment was deafening. She felt the knot tighten in her stomach.

She walked towards the window and stared at the park across the street. She had so many wonderful memories here, and now it was ending. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself, but her heart still pounded wildly against her ribs. She was so ashamed.

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