embarrassed - Story 40919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pressure in his chest was almost unbearable. He had always taken pride in his well-maintained lawn and garden. Mr. Harrison's polite suggestion about the removal of the overgrown sycamore left him feeling as if something had been taken from him.

He cleared his throat, the sound a rough rasp in the quiet afternoon. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he realized he made when he didn't know what to do. The sycamore had been a source of pride, now it was a source of… something else.

"I... I hadn't realized," he stammered, avoiding Mr. Harrison's gaze. The truth felt like a betrayal.

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