embarrassed - Story 40877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art fair's opening. Her prints. Every single one. She hadn’t even realized she left the flashdrive in the shop. She didn't want the prints sold. They were deeply personal, meant for her own wall.

She stood rooted to the spot, a feeling of heat spreading across her skin. She scanned the crowd, hoping to spot the person responsible. She noticed her friend Kate walking towards her. She desperately wanted to run.

Kate smiled. "These are amazing, Maya! Did you really make them?" Maya forced a smile. Her voice came out as a whisper as she mumbled a response.

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