embarrassed - Story 40852 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous tic he hadn't realized he’d inherited. His father's list was in his lap, the ink a faded blue. Item number one: "Join a karaoke night and sing a power ballad." A cold sweat broke out.

He envisioned his father, a stoic accountant, belting out Bon Jovi. The thought was so absurd, so utterly unexpected. His stomach churned.

He scanned the rest of the list: "Get a tattoo," "Go skydiving," "Tell a stranger I love them." He considered the implications, each one more ludicrous than the last. He felt an overwhelming urge to hide the list, to forget he'd ever seen it.

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