embarrassed - Story 40829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew something was off when his own boss, the CEO, started to present their new marketing campaign. He looked to the competition; their CEO was smiling. He felt the blood drain from his face as he realized what he was seeing.

The same key phrases, the same marketing strategies, the same visuals – it was all identical. The office suddenly felt stifling. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually avoided.

He slumped in his chair. He hated to be the odd one, so he tried to maintain professionalism. But it was difficult when he felt like the air in the room was electrified with unspoken accusations.

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