embarrassed - Story 40914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in his hands was subtle, but he noticed it. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing evening, and then Mr. Rodriguez had knocked, his eyes twinkling with practiced charm. The request to fell the unruly maple, the one that cast a perpetual shadow over Mr. Rodriguez's garden, had arrived like a punch to the gut.

He attempted a smile, feeling it stretch tight across his face. "Sure, Mr. Rodriguez, but I'll need some time to think about it." The words felt hollow, inadequate. He found himself staring intensely at the floorboards.

The offer to help with the cost felt more like an accusation. He felt a deep desire to be invisible.

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