embarrassed - Story 40872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam froze in the doorway of the coffee shop. There it was, his painstakingly crafted ceramic teapot, perched atop a pedestal like some kind of prize-winning artifact. He’d only intended to enter the local craft fair, not have his work immortalized in this trendy establishment. A wave of heat washed over him.

He fiddled with the strap of his messenger bag, pulling it up and down nervously. He wished he'd worn a different shirt. A loud, booming laugh came from the corner of the room. He hoped it wasn’t directed at him, at his teapot.

He saw the barista, a young woman with a nose ring, motioning for him to come over. He considered turning and running. Instead, he forced a smile and shuffled towards the counter, feeling every eye in the room on him.

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