embarrassed - Story 40838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage felt heavy with the scent of motor oil and unspoken truths. Anna stared at the bank statement, the stark numbers reflecting in her wide eyes. Her husband, Peter, had always been the practical one. He handled all their accounts. Now, this.

She recalled their conversations about investments, about saving for retirement. She felt a slow burn start in her chest, radiating outwards. The tools on the workbench seemed to mock her, silent witnesses to her naive trust. She felt the urge to throw something, but instead, just slumped back against the car.

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