embarrassed - Story 40909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The carefully crafted plans, the future she had envisioned, now lay in tatters. Emily stared at the screen, her heart hammering against her ribs. She was supposed to be thriving.

She felt a wave of shame washing over her as she thought of the countless times she had spoken of the school's merits. She had been so proud, and now, it all felt foolish.

She bolted from the library, not wanting to run into anyone she knew. She kept her head down, avoiding the eyes of the students, her pace quick and hurried. She wanted to hide from the world.

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