embarrassed - Story 40825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist’s heart pounded in her chest. She’d spent weeks locked away in her studio, pouring her soul into this series of paintings. The gallery owner was beaming, praising the vibrant colors and the unique perspective. Then, the gallery owner gestured to another artist’s work.

A cold stone formed in the pit of her stomach as she recognized the compositions, the colors, the very essence of her artistic vision. The other artist, a smug looking woman, kept smiling at her, as if she knew some secret.

She felt like she had been punched, the air knocked out of her. Her hand flew up to her mouth, covering a gasp. She struggled to keep a neutral expression, but it was impossible.

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