embarrassed - Story 40893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Davies, would you like to review your exam?" The professor's voice was sharp, and it echoed in the empty corridor. Ethan swallowed hard, his stomach clenching. He walked towards the office door slowly, as if his feet were weighted down. He knew the answer.

He'd been so certain he had understood the material. He'd even helped his classmates prepare. Now, the reality felt like a sucker punch.

The professor’s office felt airless. Ethan kept his gaze fixed on the floor, unable to meet the professor’s eye. He stammered, his voice barely a whisper. He knew this would follow him.

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