embarrassed - Story 40774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will reading was the social event of the season, at least according to Aunt Mildred. Liam had hoped, against hope, for the family estate. His sister, Chloe, seemed certain to get it. He could feel the eyes of their relatives on him, full of curiosity.

"And for Liam..." The lawyer paused, drawing out the suspense. Liam's stomach churned. "...a lifetime membership to a competitive cheese-making society." Chloe choked on a cough. The room erupted in suppressed laughter.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. The thought of attending cheese-making competitions made his insides twist. He kept his head down, tracing patterns on the polished table. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a feeling he couldn't name.

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