embarrassed - Story 40899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parent-teacher conference loomed. Jason knew what awaited him: a lecture. His parents had placed so much emphasis on his academics. This test score was a disaster.

He sat rigidly in his chair, fiddling with the loose threads on his jeans as the teacher talked. His heart pounded in his chest.

The air in the room seemed to thicken with each passing moment. He had trouble meeting either of his parent's eyes. He felt a prickling at the back of his neck as his parents began to speak.

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