embarrassed - Story 40880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The local park's art competition. Her vibrant, abstract paintings. She’d painted them on her own time, a creative outlet. She had never planned on showing them to anyone. And yet, there they were, prominently featured among the other contestants.

She felt a wave of cold rush over her. She tried to smile, but her lips felt stiff and unresponsive. She watched as people walked past, stopping to inspect her work.

She heard someone whisper, "Interesting, but I'm not sure I understand it." She felt a sudden, intense desire to run far, far away. She just wanted to be alone.

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