embarrassed - Story 40739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered himself a collected person. Now, he couldn’t stop fidgeting. His leg bounced. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over. He’d just finished listening to the news. He wanted to say something, anything, but his tongue felt tied. His best friend was leaving, and the world was changing. The small talk felt like a betrayal. He knew he was letting his friend down. He felt the eyes of his friend on him.

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