embarrassed - Story 40769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just over there," Ben said confidently, pointing to a patch of untended grass. He'd spent the entire drive, regaling his new girlfriend with tales of the impressive, towering pine tree he’d planted as a kid. He’d painted a vivid picture of its strength and beauty. It was a symbol of him.

He was momentarily speechless. He quickly changed his story, launching into a tangent about the architectural merit of the house. He shoved his hands into his pockets, his gaze darting around, avoiding her inquisitive stare. He started kicking at a loose stone on the path, anything to distract from the obvious truth.

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