embarrassed - Story 40865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A lifetime supply of… glow sticks?” Mr. Davies stammered, staring at the box overflowing with vibrant green tubes. It was from a student from his chemistry class. The student who was famous for setting off smoke bombs in the back.

He felt a prickling sensation on his face. He quickly scanned the room, making sure no other teachers had seen him. Did the student know about the time he'd gotten in trouble for his own experiment gone wrong?

He tried to smile, but it felt stiff and unnatural. He needed to find a place to hide the box. He couldn't keep 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