embarrassed - Story 40922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a flush rise from his collar, spreading across his cheeks like wildfire. He hunched over the coffee, pretending to meticulously arrange the sugar packets. The barista had just called his name. She had a kind smile, but it felt like a spotlight on his predicament.

The coffee shop was bustling. Sunlight streamed through the large windows, illuminating every speck of dust.

A woman walked over, holding a similar cup. She eyed his arm with a flicker of recognition. "That's... quite the thing, isn't it?" she asked, her voice low. He could feel his ears burning.

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