embarrassed - Story 40777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the courtroom felt suffocating. "And for Beatrice," the judge stated, her voice echoing, "a year's supply of organic kale." Her brother, Charles, snickered audibly, leaning towards his friends.

Beatrice stared at her hands, unable to meet the judge's gaze. The family fortune, the business, all Charles'. She, the artist, was left with…kale. A red flush crept up her neck.

She felt a tightening in her chest. She mumbled a thank you and quickly left, the sound of laughter following her. The kale – she could feel the fibrous green leaves mocking her.

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