embarrassed - Story 40863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, framed painting was a perfect rendition of her garden. Ms. Evans, a lover of art and a dedicated teacher, felt a flush creep up her neck as she held it. It had arrived that morning, sent by Emily Carter, the shy girl from her art class. The painting was absolutely beautiful.

She kept clearing her throat, unable to look directly at the painting for more than a second. It was far too kind of a gesture from the quiet girl. It showed a skill she had helped foster, yes, but it also laid her own lack of artistic talent bare in the starkest terms.

She set the painting down very carefully and fumbled for her coffee cup, needing to appear casual.

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