embarrassed - Story 40738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself suddenly engrossed in the pattern of the wallpaper, tracing the tiny floral details with her finger. Across the room, Liam was regaling her with stories of his new life, his new friends, his new… everything. His words, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a relentless barrage. She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes, a sting that threatened to overflow. She was supposed to be happy for him. She was supposed to be supportive. But all she could feel was a profound sense of… emptiness.

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