embarrassed - Story 40728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of lavender wafted from the tissue paper as Maya carefully opened the letter. It was a resignation letter from her grandmother’s nursing job. Maya knew her grandmother. The reason was “a growing distrust of the medical system”.

Maya let out a short, involuntary sound. She felt the heat rising in her face. Her grandmother had always been so proud of her profession. A profound sense of disorientation swirled within her. She folded the letter quickly, shoving it back into the box. She wanted to walk away, to leave everything untouched. She ran out of the room.

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