embarrassed - Story 40926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The desert wind whipped around him, carrying grains of sand that stung his exposed skin. He adjusted his scarf, trying to shield himself from the sun and the judging stares of the other hikers. He felt exposed, vulnerable.

He'd been trekking for hours, and the heat was making the flare-ups on his arms and legs especially active. He wished he had stayed home.

A woman with a wide-brimmed hat sat on a nearby rock, watching him. She beckoned him over. "Having a day?" she asked, her voice barely above a whisper, her eyes twinkling with a shared knowing.

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