embarrassed - Story 40847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late-night guitar practice, fuelled by strong coffee and a desperate need to finish a song, had proved too much for the residents of the floor above. A sharp, insistent knocking echoed through the small flat. Michael's blood ran cold.

He opened the door to find Mrs. Petrov, her face grim. Her eyes were fixed on the guitar lying on the floor, the source of the recent ruckus.

He found himself apologizing profusely, his voice a low monotone. He gestured towards the instrument. "Sorry. won't do it again." He kept his gaze averted.

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