embarrassed - Story 40778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mahogany desk seemed to shrink under her weight. The lawyer's words, the inheritance, felt heavy. "And for Samuel," the lawyer intoned, "a collection of vintage rubber ducks." His sister, Olivia, was bequeathed the family bakery.

He stared at his hands, his knuckles turning white. His jaw ached from clenching. He felt a wave of cold wash over him, followed by an uncomfortable heat. The ducks seemed to multiply in his mind, mocking him with their yellow plastic smiles.

He pushed away from the desk, muttering an excuse. The thought of facing Olivia, facing everyone, seemed unbearable. He needed air. He needed to be anywhere else.

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