embarrassed - Story 40929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt small, the air thick with unspoken tension. He studied the diplomas on the wall, anything to avoid meeting the doctor's gaze.

He knew what the prognosis would be, he had lived with the condition long enough to know the signs.

The nurse let a new patient in. He looked exactly like him, his skin covered with the same distinctive marks. A look of recognition passed between them, then, a shared sense of awkwardness.

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