embarrassed - Story 40733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, yeah," Sarah said, picking at a loose thread on her jeans. The news had dropped moments before, during their usual Friday night pizza and movie night. Across the living room, Chloe practically vibrated with excitement. "California! That's amazing!" Sarah forced a smile, but the edges of her lips felt stiff, unnatural. The pizza, usually a comfort, now felt like a lead weight in her stomach. She hadn't expected to have to deal with this, a reality of change. She looked at her phone, and quickly messaged her parents, to avoid dealing with the situation.

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