embarrassed - Story 40928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria was a cacophony of clattering trays and hurried conversations. She hunched over her bland meal, wishing she could vanish. She felt utterly alone.

She barely registered the woman who sat down across from her, until the woman cleared her throat. “You… you have it too, don’t you?” she said, her voice soft, tentative.

Her gaze shifted downwards, never reaching her eyes. She picked at the plastic fork in front of her, feeling a prickle of discomfort crawl up her neck.

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