embarrassed - Story 40730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is… awkward," thought Grace, as she read the letter of resignation her mother submitted to her old dance troupe. She had always thought her mother's dancing career had ended in a blaze of glory.

The truth? A fight over choreography. Grace felt a stinging sensation in her cheeks. The letter felt alien and distant. She felt her hands start to perspire. Her mother had never told her. She folded the paper with a jerky motion, carefully placing it back in the envelope. The room suddenly felt smaller, the silence more pronounced. She needed to get out.

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