embarrassed - Story 40727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, god,” sighed Eleanor, sinking back against the dusty velvet of the library armchair. The letter, recovered from her mother’s secret drawer, detailed a resignation from her very successful publishing house. Eleanor had been trying to find out why her mother always seemed to resent her.

The reason? "A desire for a less demanding life." A life Eleanor had inadvertently complicated. Eleanor felt a blush climb up her neck. The words seemed to accuse her. She felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape the confines of the room, the weight of the letter. She closed her eyes. It was a hot, uncomfortable sensation.

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