embarrassed - Story 40725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the antique shop felt heavy with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. Chloe clutched the letter, a consignment item she was supposed to be cataloging. It was a resignation letter from her mother's favorite antique store decades ago. Her mother would have been in her early twenties.

A flush rose up her neck. The letter mentioned an argument with the owner, a petty disagreement over a display case. Chloe felt her cheeks burning. It felt so… small. That wasn't how she remembered her mother. The woman in the letter was nothing like the woman she knew, so composed and in control. A knot formed in her stomach. She quickly put the letter in its envelope, pushing it to the bottom of the pile.

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