embarrassed - Story 40867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hand-knitted scarf was a vibrant, clashing combination of colors. Ms. Peterson ran a finger along the rough wool, her expression unreadable. It was from Kevin, the boy who'd spent most of her lessons staring out the window.

A wave of heat washed over her. She knew she hadn't been the most engaging teacher, had she? Hadn't she told him, more than once, to pay attention? Now he'd sent her this… thing.

She folded the scarf carefully, feeling the fibers scratch against her skin. She had to put it in her drawer, at once.

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