embarrassed - Story 40797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had been so enthusiastic, so eager to close the deal. Now, standing in the foyer with the detective, Claire felt a wave of nausea. The lawyer had conveniently "forgotten" to mention the history of the house. Now, the glossy hardwood floors, the grand staircase, and all the "charming features" seemed to mock her.

She had to focus on the detective's words, his professional detachment. She felt her face burn with a sense of humiliation. She stared at the ornate ceiling molding, unable to meet the detective's gaze. The grand foyer now felt like a cage, and she was trapped.

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