embarrassed - Story 40878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community centre's exhibition. His tiny, meticulously crafted paper sculptures. It was an unauthorized display. He'd shown them to his neighbor, and suddenly, they were gracing the entrance hall. He clenched his fists, trying to find some form of composure.

He noticed Mrs. Gable, his neighbor, chatting animatedly with a group of people, gesturing in his direction. He wanted the earth to swallow him whole.

He ducked behind a pillar, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, a physical manifestation of his inner turmoil.

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