embarrassed - Story 40896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, how'd you do on the history test?" Mark’s friend, Ben, asked cheerfully during their soccer practice. Mark froze, his cleats digging into the muddy ground. The question hung in the air, heavy and unwelcome. He had been so proud of his study habits and his confidence.

He’d gotten a “D+.” The weight of his failure felt oppressive.

He kicked the ball with more force than necessary, the shot sailing far off target. "Fine," he mumbled, avoiding Ben's gaze. The sting of the rejection was difficult to ignore.

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