embarrassed - Story 40898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s feedback was scathing. "Needs significant improvement," the comments read. Liam reread the evaluation, his face burning. He had put in effort, or so he thought.

The paper felt like it was radioactive.

The class ended. As he gathered his things, he caught the eyes of a few classmates, their eyes suggesting pity. He pretended to have found something interesting on the floor, avoiding eye contact. He wanted nothing more than to disappear.

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