embarrassed - Story 40810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The genealogy website displayed the family tree, a stark, digital representation of a life he thought he knew. Now, there was a new branch: a name, a date, a life. Ethan stared at the screen, his mouth dry. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips.

He quickly closed the website, as if shutting out the information would make it untrue. He felt a sudden urgency to escape. He went to the gym and lifted weights until his muscles screamed.

That night, he deleted the search history, as if it was possible to erase the existence of someone he had never known. He wanted to forget he'd even seen the website. He went to bed, but could not sleep.

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