embarrassed - Story 40879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know how his graffiti tag had ended up in the museum. He felt a knot in his stomach. The bright red paint screamed against the pristine white wall. He’d only meant it for a bridge underpass.

He shifted from foot to foot, his palms sweating. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips. A security guard was approaching. He quickly looked around, desperately seeking an escape route.

He was trapped. His stomach churned. The guard was getting closer. He took a deep breath.

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