embarrassed - Story 40824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on her screen: "Project Reveal - Team Titan." She’d been working on a new AI integration for months, thinking she was breaking new ground. Then, she saw the attached presentation. The same algorithms, the same user interface, the same ambitious goals.

A chill ran through her, despite the warmth of the office. She instinctively clenched her jaw, her teeth grating slightly. She felt like her own ideas had been stolen, and then, presented with more confidence and polish.

She quickly clicked on the "reply" button, but found she couldn't type anything. Her fingers hovered over the keyboard. She closed her eyes for a moment, and when she opened them again, the presentation was still there, a constant reminder of the situation.

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