embarrassed - Story 40760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting it. The letter came in the mail, its thick envelope carrying a familiar scent. His mouth went dry as he unfolded the note, recognizing the handwriting. The letter was from his old school bully.

The note's contents detailed years of contrition for the pain he’d caused. He remembered the playground, the taunts, the physical confrontations. The memory of the bullying made his hands curl into fists. He stared at the words, feeling a familiar tightness in his chest. He threw the letter across the room.

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