embarrassed - Story 40888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The charity auction was meant to be fun, a chance to help the community. I had bid on a hand-knitted scarf, feeling good about contributing. My face heated as I watched Mr. Finch casually outbid everyone on a weekend trip to Paris.

My jaw clenched. I had always perceived Mr. Finch as a bit of a grouch. He often grumbled about the weather and complained about the noisy kids. I’d thought, mistakenly, that we shared a similar financial understanding.

The auctioneer announced the final bid, and Mr. Finch, with a slight smirk, nodded. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes, as I struggled to swallow the lump that had suddenly formed in my throat.

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