embarrassed - Story 40920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent hum of the refrigerator seemed to amplify the silence in her kitchen. She had loved the sycamore for years. Mrs. Ramirez’s inquiry, regarding the tree's encroaching branches, left her feeling a strange disquiet. The thought of losing it was like losing a piece of her history.

She found herself gripping the edge of the kitchen counter, her knuckles turning white. She could feel her pulse racing. She'd been so sure of herself.

"I, um, I’ll need some time to…consider," she finally managed, her voice barely a whisper. The weight of the moment felt heavy, pressing down on her shoulders.

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