embarrassed - Story 40925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university lecture hall felt immense, the rows of seats stretching into the gloom. He wished he could sink into the floor. He'd been so preoccupied with the professor’s lecture that he’d forgotten about the itching, the tell-tale signs.

During the break, a girl with vibrant pink hair approached him. She held out a bottle of antiseptic cream. Her voice was hesitant. “I… I know what that is. It’s… the same as mine.”

He could feel his face burning, the sensation spreading downwards into his chest. He mumbled a thanks, then ducked his head, desperate to escape.

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