embarrassed - Story 40766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d spent weeks working on this slideshow. Liam, beaming with pride, finally reached the photo of the towering, vibrant cherry tree, the centerpiece of his presentation about his family's history. He clicked. Blankness. He’d driven all this way, just to show this slideshow.

He felt the color drain from his face. He stammered a half-hearted explanation, blaming the projector. But the room, filled with extended family eager for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, went silent. He quickly advanced to the next slide, his hands shaking slightly as he spoke about other things. The room felt suddenly very hot.

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