embarrassed - Story 40848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thud of the exercise equipment – the treadmill in particular - had finally pushed Mrs. Chen over the edge. Now, there she was, standing in the doorway, a look of profound annoyance etched on her face. Amy felt her face flush.

She swallowed hard, searching for words. "I... I can try to be more mindful of the time," she blurted out, gesturing vaguely towards the offending machine.

She shifted her weight from one foot to the other, her gaze darting between the woman and the floor. The treadmill seemed suddenly enormous and intrusive.

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