embarrassed - Story 40842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d sworn he’d keep it down. John's promise had been quickly broken. The drum practice, fueled by coffee and enthusiasm, had apparently reached critical levels. A firm knock on the door, coupled with a glare, from the elderly gentleman next door, and John felt his stomach churn.

"Sorry, Mr. Henderson," John mumbled, shrinking back slightly. "Just a bit of… rhythm exploration." He gestured feebly towards his drum kit.

Mr. Henderson's lips tightened. John shifted his weight from one foot to the other, wishing he could evaporate. The rhythmic cacophony now seemed deafeningly loud.

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