embarrassed - Story 40804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt oppressively warm. A fan whirred uselessly in the corner. Emily fiddled with the strap of her purse, her fingers dancing nervously. The lawyer’s words echoed in her ears: "Your father's will... and the existence of a daughter, another heir..."

She hated that she couldn’t concentrate. The air in the room seemed thick, the silence between sentences deafening. The lawyer was speaking, but the words were a jumble. She felt a tremor in her hands, she wanted to disappear.

She made a show of straightening the already perfect hem of her skirt. She was going to have to meet this person, wasn't she? The mere thought caused her a sudden urge to flee.

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