embarrassed - Story 40827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights felt blinding. He’d spent months perfecting his stand-up routine, crafting jokes, practicing his delivery. He was ready to make his mark. But now, as he watched the other comedian on stage, his blood ran cold.

The same premise, the same punchlines, the same pacing – it was all there. He felt a wave of nausea. He took a step back into the shadows, his face burning.

He gripped his phone tightly. He could feel the weight of expectation, the pressure to perform, but he couldn't. He couldn't go on.

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