embarrassed - Story 40895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with the usual Friday afternoon energy, but for Liam, it was a cacophony. He had spotted Sarah, his crush, heading his way. He braced himself.

He’d told her he was a "math whiz," all about his potential, about how well he was doing in advanced calculus. Now, he'd failed the quiz. He had an awful, hollow feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Sarah smiled, and he instinctively looked down at his tray, pretending to be utterly absorbed by his burger. “Hey, Liam!” she called out. He could barely muster a reply.

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