embarrassed - Story 40858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room smelled of old books and forgotten memories. He traced the words with his finger, a feeling like static electricity running through his veins. “Sing in a choir.” His chest felt heavy.

His grandfather, a man of few words and even fewer emotions, had written this. His eyebrows shot up.

The list continued: “Learn to play the harmonica,” “Go camping,” “Tell someone you love them.” The incongruity of it all left him feeling slightly ill. He tucked the list away, wanting to bury 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