embarrassed - Story 40740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived with a ping, shattering the comfortable silence of their Saturday afternoon. "Just wanted to let you know… I'm moving to Chicago." The words swam before her eyes. She put her phone down, then picked it up again, rereading the message, as if it would change. Across the room, her cat was sleeping, oblivious to the storm brewing inside her. She felt a sudden, inexplicable need to tidy, to organize, to control something, anything, in the face of this unexpected upheaval.

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