embarrassed - Story 40843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment felt suddenly claustrophobic. The air conditioning was failing, and sweat slicked down Maya's back as Mr. Peterson, her building manager, stood in her doorway. He'd been drawn in by the rhythmic chaos of her tap-dancing practice.

“The neighbors…” he started, his gaze sweeping across the cramped living room. Maya's gaze followed, taking in the scuffed floor and the haphazardly placed practice mat.

She cleared her throat, attempting a casual smile that felt brittle. “Oh, right, the… the percussive arts.” She reached out, grasping the doorknob, eager to shut him out and hide. Her face burned.

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